Hi Mike,
FWIW, the New and Open Office document shortcuts were also optional installation choices in Office 2003. They may have been
installed in either a custom installation choice when installing or in an upgrade scenario.
The new template from MS Office Button (File)=>New has a lot to offer in the way of access to templates on your PC and online and
will be updated on an ongoing basis with new items. There are a lot of posts from folks over the past months looking for specific
templates. This should hopefully help with some of those quests.
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Edit: i found it. was optional component in add/remove features, which
strangely isnt installed by default. >>
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Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?

MS Office System Products MVP
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