NewFile Object

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Office Developer Reference

Represents items listed on the New

Item

task pane available in several Microsoft Office applications.

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The use of CommandBars in some Microsoft Office applications has been superseded by the new Ribbon user interface. For more information, search help for the keyword "Ribbon."

Remarks

The following table shows the property to use to access the NewFile object in each of the applications.

Application Property
Microsoft Access NewFileTaskPane
Microsoft Excel NewWorkbook
Microsoft FrontPage NewPageOrWeb
Microsoft PowerPoint NewPresentation
Microsoft Word NewDocument
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The examples below are for Word, but you can change the NewDocument property for any of the properties listed above and use the code in the corresponding application.

Example

Use the Add method to add a new item to the New

Item

task pane. The following example adds an item to Word's New Document task pane.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub AddNewDocToTaskPane()
    Application.NewDocument.Add FileName:="C:\NewDocument.doc", _
        Section:=msoNew, DisplayName:="New Document"
    CommandBars("Task Pane").Visible = True 
End Sub

Use the Remove method to remove an item from the New

Item

task pane. The following example removes the document added in the above example from Word's New Document task pane.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub RemoveDocFromTaskPane()
    Application.NewDocument.Remove FileName:="C:\NewDocument.doc", _
        Section:=msoNew, DisplayName:="New Document"
    CommandBars("Task Pane").Visible = True 
End Sub

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