Remove/hide General folder

[Joe Bedics]

In Word, I'm using Word's native new document functionality. We have created
folders with templates that are displayed when I click File > New.

The GENERAL folder contains the the templates we want to use. GENERAL is the
default.

In my folder list I also have a "General" folder which contains a blank
document, XML, Outlook message and web page.

How can I remove or hide the General folder? Is there a registry key
setting? General does not exist on the hard drive.

Thank you.

Joe Bedics

 

[Graham Mayor]

I guess this is Word 2003?

General is the default user templates folder. It is a system folder and
cannot be hidden from Word.

What you could do is rename your personal General folder to something
different e.g. Company Templates then intercept the file new command to open
that folder instead of General.

The default User Templates Folder is a hidden folder and can be found by
entering - %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates in the address bar of Windows
Explorer or your browser. This does not work if you have changed the user
templates folder from Word options.

The tabs across the top of the File New dialog should be in alphabetical
order albeit with General first. The following macro assumes that General is
first and Company Templates is the second tab. If it is not the second tab
you will need to modify the sendkeys command to select the correct tab e.g.
for the second Tab after General change the line to
SendKeys "^{TAB 2}{DOWN}"

When the FileNewDialog command is executed your Company Templates folder is
opened and the first template selected.

Sub FileNewDialog()
SendKeys "^{TAB}{DOWN}"
With Dialogs(wdDialogFileNew)
.Show
End With
End Sub

You can replace the FileNew command on the toolbar with FileNewDialog

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