Hi Helgeby,
If you're using Office 2003 the 'New Office Document' and
'Open Office Document' shortcuts are optional installation
features you can activate from the MS Office choice in
Add/Remove Programs in the Windows control panel.
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In office 97 I could open a new office document from my toolbar by a shortway
to a program named OSA. exe. you did not need too open Exel or Word first>>
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Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?

MS Office System Products MVP
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Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx