Using START, MY DOCS, NEW,FOLDER doesn't work. WHY?

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BILL-WILL

I tried to use instuctions written by Jim Boyce for MS Office Online
Assistance to "Organize My Docs by using subfolders". They say:
1. In the START menu, click MY DOCS to open MY DOCS folder
2. In MY DOCS, rt. click a blank area in the folder window, point to NEW,
and then click FOLDER.
3. Type a new name for the folder, & then click outside the text field.

I could only get as far as right clicking what I thought was a blank area.
Each time the sub menu came up, I saw NEW, and pointed to it, but no oher
choices like "FOLDER" came up. Actually clicking on NEW or CREATE SHORTCUT
did not work either.

I wound up doing my folders the hard way-opening up a doc, clicking the new
folder button, etc.

I have MS Office XP 2003 Home Ed.
 
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Bob I

Sounds like your operating system has had the context menus messed with.
Try at step 2. Picking File, New instead. Or if r-click menus everywhere
are hosed, post to the WindowsXP news group.
 
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Beth Melton

It doesn't sound like you were right-clicking an empty area in the
window. Based on your description it sounds like you were
right-clicking a file and opened its context menu instead.

Either use the File/New method as Bob described or keep trying empty
areas of the folder. You may also want to switch to another view, such
as View/List, and see if that helps.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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