Open files pane in Office 2K

[Tushar]

When one wants to open files, Office 2K apps display a list of locations where to fast search files i.e. My Docs, History, network etc. My office computer is used by two of us me & my colleague. Is there any way to introduce the two directories meant for storing our docs, so that we don't have to navigate to them every time ? I mean can I introduce shortcuts into this pane on the left side of the File open screen ?

No passwords etc. are involved, only a faster way to go there. Thanx.

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[Lowland]

Hi Tushar!

Yeah you van do this speed up thing by using the favourites folder, and adding a new shortcut in there to the destination folders you want (use map network drive, or add a folder/file to favourites, it's the same as adding any folder in Office 2k to favourites. Help will help you do that (Office Assistant)

So, when done, Open, Favourites, select the folder, and .... bingo

Good luck

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[Tushar]

Sorry, Lowland for the delay.

However, here is my solution to implement the 'Places' feature (i.e. my requirement) of Office XP in Office 2000.

Below is the text (Reg keys) required to be merged with the registry to create user defined places.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Co mmon\Open Find\Places\UserDefinedPlaces\Place1]
"Name"="ABC's Files"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Co mmon\Open Find\Places\UserDefinedPlaces\Place1]
"Path"="C:\\ABC"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Co mmon\Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces\Desktop]
"Show"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Co mmon\Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces\Favorites]
"Show"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Co mmon\Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces\MyDocuments]
"Show"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Co mmon\Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces\Publishing]
"Show"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Co mmon\Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces\Recent]
"Show"=dword:00000000

Note, now that ->

i) Note the Double backslash ( \\ ) after the drive letter

ii) For every one place to be created, there are two keys to be created.

iii) Office 2K by default can show only 5 places.

iv) Hence for every new place you create, you need to sacrifice one of the 'Standard places', because the Open screen cannot be resized.

v) For this purpose, the last five lines have the 'Show' variable which is a dword ending with 0 for No & 1 for Yes. Accordingly in above example Desktop & My Documents continue to be showed in the pane. Depending on your choices the Standard & User places are shown, together 5 (Five) maximum.

It was Lowland's answer and my requirement which made me dig into it.

Thanks also to www.Xteq.com, (http://www.Xteq.com,) who have a X-Setup plugin (precisely for this job at it says) which worked, but (may be I was wrong in using it) did not disable any of the 'Standard' places & hence my 'User' places did not show up.

I understand Microsoft has done it all at user level in Office XP, including Icon resizing & No limits to the places.

Sorry for the long post, but hope it helps others with similar requirement.

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