'Favorites' in Office 2003 on Terminal Server

[Jasper Zondervan]

Hi,

I just upgraded our Terminal Server to Windows 2003, and replaced Office
2000 with Office 2003. A lot of my users are now complaining they miss the
'Favorites' folder in the Open File dialog of both Excel and Word. I know how
to add a custom folder, but I don't want every user to have to do this
manually and I certanly don't want to do that for them. Is there any way to
restore this favorites folder to the open/save file dialogs for everyone? I
use kix, so a registry setting on logon would be an option, if someone has a
sample script it would be perfect.. Any other suggestions are welcome

Regards,

Jasper

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jasper,

You can customize the list of items shown in the 'Places bar' with registry settngs (\UserDefinedPlaces), but Favorites is not one
of the defaults in Office 2003.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826214/en-us?FR=1

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Hi,

I just upgraded our Terminal Server to Windows 2003, and replaced Office
2000 with Office 2003. A lot of my users are now complaining they miss the
'Favorites' folder in the Open File dialog of both Excel and Word. I know how
to add a custom folder, but I don't want every user to have to do this
manually and I certanly don't want to do that for them. Is there any way to
restore this favorites folder to the open/save file dialogs for everyone? I
use kix, so a registry setting on logon would be an option, if someone has a
sample script it would be perfect.. Any other suggestions are welcome

Regards,

Jasper <<
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Jasper Zondervan]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the reply.
I knew that site already. My problem is that the location of custom places
is in fact a REG_BINARY value. I'm not aware of any way to change something
like "C:\Documents and Settings\" + @USERID + "\Favorites" into a binary
value that office might understand.

Any suggestions?

Jasper