remove default shortcuts word 2007 my places bar

[dsrs]

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'??

 

[Terry Farrell]

Upgrade to Vista and Office 2007. When you save, it goes straight to (the
default folder) in Explorer (not a SaveAs dialog) and in Vista Explorer
there's your own Favorites area in the Folders bar. And they have also moved
the grating two lettered word - 'My'!

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

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.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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!).

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Try alternating right-clicks with tapping the U or D key. Seems to get the
little buggers where you want a lot more quickly, and only half as many
clicks.

 

[Terry Farrell]

That's a good tip for a long move. It always was an annoyance that you could
only move the icons a step at a time. However, now I'm on Vista, it really
doesn't matter. The more I use Vista (and Office 207), the more I like it.
If only those custom toolbars...

terry

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks for the tip.

Try alternating right-clicks with tapping the U or D key. Seems to get the
little buggers where you want a lot more quickly, and only half as many
clicks.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
http://www.herbtyson.com
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Herb,

While you cannot remove the five built-in 'Standard' Desktop places common to Word 2002 through 2007 that appear on the
File Open/File Save places bar, you can hide the five places from view [a MS nuance I suppose <g>]

(at least in Windows XP and Windows 2000).

You can add/use a show/hide toggle in the registry for each Standard places entry http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826214/en-us?FR=1
(For Office 2007 it would be the same process but with
...\Office\12.0\...
in the registry location)

The 'My Recent Places' choice pointing to 'Recent' (registry folder) won't allow you to save, but you can put a shortcut in it that
does go to a 'My Recent Places' folder and use that to save to as well
(not sure why you'd want to, but... ")

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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.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[LeafPicker]

It should support drag and drop for the places bar! But I don't care
b/c I am using Lightning Bar on http://lbar.leafpicker.com

"Suzanne S. Barnhill :
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