Re: remove default shortcuts word 2007 my places bar

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Thanks for that tip. I've added lots of folders to the Places Bar in Word
2003, use small icons, and have increased the size of the dialogs, but I
confess that, although I've jockeyed the other folders around, it hadn't
occurred to me to move My Network Places down to the bottom. That's now
done. I suspect I could do the same with My Computer and never miss it (but
it's an awful lot of clicks!).

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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" <herb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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While you cannot get rid of the default places, you can add your own and
move them up to just below Trusted Templates (albeit not ABOVE Trusted
Templates). Thus you can effectively shove all but Trusted Templates to
the
bottom and out of sight (depending on how many you add). You can also gain
more real estate in the Places Bar by right-clicking and choosing Small
Icons.

In Vista, Word 2007 uses Windows Explorer, and the Favorite Links area in
the navigation pane is a lot more flexible.

By the way... you CAN'T save documents to My Recent Places. Go ahead and
try. <g> It's not a real location.

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"dsrs" <eyewitness.guide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One of the most annoying features of Office 2007 is that some moron at
microsoft decided you want to save your files in 'my documents', 'my
recent documents' and other useless rubbish bins.

Although it is possible to add your own locations, it seems impossible
to get rid of the damn defaults, which clutter up the bar. Why can't we
decide for ourselves?

The registry setting

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Open
Find\Places\StandardPlaces\

looks like the place to delete these buggers. But I have not managed to
do it. Even if I delete the keys, they come back.

Does anyone know how to utterly and forever remove these stupid places,
like 'Trusted Templates'??



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