Change Word's default search engine

[RobG]

Is it possible to change Word's default search engine from www.live.com
to some other engine that I specify?

Is this the right group to ask this question? I tried searching and
couldn't find anything about it.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi RobG,

Is it possible to change Word's default search engine from www.live.com
to some other engine that I specify?

Is this the right group to ask this question? I tried searching and
couldn't find anything about it.

Where are you seeing this? Which version of Word?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[RobG]

Hi RobG,

Where are you seeing this? Which version of Word?

I'm using Office 2003 on Windows XP (I don't know which version of Word
that is). On the web toolbar, there's a search icon that, when
clicked, opens the default browser at live.com. I'd like to change it
to Google (or whatever I may choose in the future). The one in
Office:Mac (Word 2004) goes to excite.com, so it seems it should be
configurable but I don't know where to do it.

As a related issue, I'd like to stop the web tool bar from appearing
when I use ctrl+click to follow links (it's a stupidly annoying
setting, I'd love to know how to turn it off). At the moment I have
the web toolbar enabled but have removed all the buttons except for the
search button, which to me is the only one of any use. That way when I
follow links (say use a table of contents to navigate to some part of
the document) my toolbar layout doesn't get modified by the addition of
the web toolbar.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For the latter problem, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BanishWebToolbar.htm

 

[RobG]

For the latter problem, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BanishWebToolbar.htm

Thanks.

Incidentally, that page has many CSS errors and doesn't display at all
in Safari. Firefox 2.0 manages to show a useful image though.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Thanks.

Incidentally, that page has many CSS errors and doesn't display at all
in Safari. Firefox 2.0 manages to show a useful image though.

Hit refresh a few times in Safari, Safari has a bug that stops the last
frame content from getting loaded right off.

The site might be older than CSS, for all I know--it was developed many many
years ago, it has *hundreds* of articles, and 1 or 2 *volunteers* maintain
it. Feel free to offer your time to help convert it to a more modern style.

If you are on a Mac, you may like to know that there are also Mac-specific
newsgroups:
See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel,
and other MS programs for the Mac:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups>

 

[RobG]

Hit refresh a few times in Safari, Safari has a bug that stops the last
frame content from getting loaded right off.

The site might be older than CSS, for all I know--it was developed many many
years ago, it has *hundreds* of articles, and 1 or 2 *volunteers* maintain
it. Feel free to offer your time to help convert it to a more modern style.

They use CSS so they should ensure their style sheets are valid, or at
least don't generate basic syntax errors. The ones that I checked
claim to have been generated in MS FrontPage 4.0 - enough said?

The Mac section of the site validates beautifully - I'll certainly be
using it in future.

If you are on a Mac, you may like to know that there are also Mac-specific
newsgroups:
See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel,
and other MS programs for the Mac:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups>

Thanks, that lead me to this tip (which isn't Mac specific) posted by
John McGhie:

"I would simply put a hyperlink to Google on the toolbar and copy
the icon onto it, then remove the original Icon "

<URL:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...default+search+engine&rnum=1#42ee27281a3cd140
Works like a charm! I can even inlcude a link to my favourite news
group(s)!