Documents / New Document: Excel ?

Question

Hi,

Question from a beginner:

In my SharePoint 2010 library, when I select Documents / New Document, I get a command to explicitly create a Microsoft Word document.

How can I add a command in this menu to allow the creation of an Excel workbook?

Thanks

Answer 1

When you create your document library, if you click more options you will see toward the bottom an option to change the document type from a word document to a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet. Hope this helps! (To my knowledge I do not know of anyway to change a document library from one type to another if it is already in existence)

-Zach Little

Answer 2

Hi,

What you need to do is create a site content type using Excel fileas template, then add this content type to the library you want to create Excel.

Here is an example you can follow:

http://sptechnet.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/add-excel-word-access-content-types-sharepoint-2010/

Thanks

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Pengyu Zhao

TechNet Community Support

Answer 3

Hi Pengyu Zhao,

That worked fine!

Thanks a lot!