the advantage to new item templates is you can assign shortcuts to them.
Come to think of it,
krakatoa, you can actually reassign the CTRL+SHIFT+N shortcut to a script that really makes a *.doc file.
Here's how:
Go to
Menu > User > Manage commands. Select "
Run Command" from the category list at left, hit the INSERT key (or press "
New" button > Add New Command).
Now, look at the bottom of the dialog, there are two empty
Caption and
Script textboxes.
Paste the following script into the
Scripts box:
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new(trim(regexmatches(self('caption'),'\"[^\"]*\"$'),'"'),,,'r');
Now, the trick is in the caption. The caption should be in this format
So a caption like this
will create a new file named "NewDOC.doc". (and focus it in rename mode)
So you can duplicate this command with just a different caption to make a whole different newfile creator.
(Duplicate User-commands: select the command and press CTRL+INSERT or New > Duplicate...)
Now that's setup, go on to shortcut re-assignment. [Press
OK to save and close the User Commands manager]
Go to
Menu > Tools > Customize Keyboard shortcuts, press the "
Jump" button, and find the newly-created user command in the command list that opens (to find faster, type "
User | Run Script | " in the searchbox at the bottom-left, followed by the command's caption).
Okay, now select the user command and press
OK, then press the desired shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+N) and press "
Assign" followed by "OK".
From now on, CTRL+SHIFT+N will not create a NewDOC.txt, but a NewDOC.doc (or whatever you have in the user-command's caption)
And remember, you can repeat the process, just tweak the caption line, to make a different newfile creator.
) for this request at it seems it has not yet been implemented. Adding the ability to define & create the new file type is helpful such as .DOC.
