Hide My Documents in places bar of MS Office 2003

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This setting lets you show My Documents in places bar in MS Office 2003.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
Ms office 2003 has a places bar on the right-side of its open/save dialog box. This dialog features a lot of system folders by default like my documents, desktop, recent, favorites but you can display or hide them with the help of registry. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkey \11.0\common\open find\places\standardplaces\my documents is not present, create it as explained below. Now, create dword value name show, if this value does not exist and modify the data value to 1 to show my documents in place bars and 0 to hide my documents. Click ok to close the registry. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.




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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Go to <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0 \Common\Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces\MyDocuments\]</b>,right-click in the open area to create a DWORD Value with the name "Show" in "MyDocuments" key.
Next, right-click on "Show" and click on 'Modify'.
Finally, enter the value "0" (Base Hexadecimal) without quotation in the text box and click on 'OK'. Once you are done. After a restart or logoff, the changes take effect.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces\MyDocuments\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: Show
  • Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
  • Enabled Value: 1
  • Disabled Value: 0
  • Action Type: Modified


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