Creating a .docx document with the right mouse button

[Nunzio_77]

Hi everyone,
Is it possible to set a feature that when you click on the desktop with the right mouse button and choose “create new document” instead of creating it with the default extension .odt it creates it in .docx?

Same thing for xls, etc. too.

Thanks!
Nunzio.

[charlie.it]

in questo forum si usa la lingua italiana, grazie.

[mikekaganski]

Right-click in a Win11 folder > New > OpenDocument Text: Can it open a .doc file rather than .odt?

The shell’s New functionality is defined in Windows Registry. Each program may register its files’ extensions to have respective New entries, by adding proper keys into the extensions’ registry entries. .DOC files are not LibreOffice file type. LibreOffice has a limited ability to import this external file type, and export to that file type as well. Indeed, as with any external file types, it may lose information (formats, or even content) both on import, and on export. Also indeed, as a too co…

(shouldn’t this question appear in English branch, since you phrased it in English? :-))