Wrong content type when selecting "New Item" using content types: Continued

Aha! more progress on this one. I've narrowed it down now - this issue only occurs when you use Office 2007 documents that have already been stored in SharePoint 2007 as your template for a content type. This includes documents that were in SharePoint and now are not, or documents currently stored in a library.

If you create your templates from files using good ol' fashioned pre-SharePoint storage (hard disk ;) ) and upload them using the "upload a new document template" option along with the content type, then you will get the desired results.



Hmm, I'm waiting for Microsoft to try and convince me now that this is a "know issue by design". It's a clear bug. Once SharePoint has added a customxml folder and associated files into the docx package you're pretty much screwed. This also puts the end to any ideas of using a standards library as the basis for all the content types used within the business. Also - try getting your quickparts spot on if you can't ever put the template in the library to get the quickparts list populated...

The workaround suggested elsewhere - upload documents only, don't create from new - is pretty lame I think. Let's see what Microsoft have to say...