Re: How to change default save location for all users
From: Daiya Mitchell (daiyaNOSPAM_at_mvps.org.INVALID)
Date: 12/14/04
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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:18:06 -0800
Disclaimer: I know nothing about administering Office installations. But I
do know where those settings are most likely saved. But I'm not sure I would
actually advise you do this, it just strikes me as possible. You would know
better than I whether these are the files the Admin Resource Kit might be
referring to, or whether the Kit suggests there is a different way.
User prefs are in the username/library/preferences/microsoft folder.
It *ought* to work to set them on your computer, then copy the right file to
all the other users (though people might get annoyed, cause you have to do
the entire file and will mess up their prefs, and do you have read/write
permission to mess with someone else's prefs folder?). I believe, though I
suggest you test it to make sure, that these are the most relevant files:
com.microsoft.Entourage.prefs.plist
com.microsoft.Excel.prefs.plist
com.microsoft.Office.prefs.plist
com.microsoft.PowerPoint.prefs.plist
com.microsoft.Word.prefs.plist
Like other Mac prefs files, if you move them the programs will recreate them
with default settings on launch, so you can test fairly easily. Not sure
whether default save location is an Office setting or per-program, probably
per-program.
There's probably a way to actually open up and edit the prefs file (maybe
using a Resource Editor?), but that's way over my head and I think not
something to mess with lightly. Try Google on that one, if you want, most of
the people here are not so big on messing with the Unix guts like that.
Another approach--if people don't use the standard Documents folder at
all--might be to replace the documents folder with an alias to wherever you
want them saved, letting you leave the Office prefs as is. I'm not real
clear on how that works, but it's been discussed on these ngs.
DM
On 12/13/04 9:00 PM, "support@tencorp.com" wrote:
> Thanks Prasanna. Unfortunately that doesn't make sense. Even the Mac
> Office Admin kit refers to a 'preferences settings file' that lets you
> setup options per user. We just can't seem to find it anywhere (other
> than the vague reference on page 81 of the resource kit at
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/5/1/35123D3A-8A7A-40F1-BB85-AF03D9B4E
> 5F3/MicrosoftOffice2004forMacResourceKit.pdf)
>
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