Add user specific items to My Places Bar in MS Office 2003

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This setting lets you add folders to the places bar in MS Office.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
Microsoft office provides a "places bar" to open some frequently used folders on the left side of its open/save dialog. Using this setting user is able to add some of the selected folders in this list to select them faster. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, create a key name place(1n) placeid where id=1..n , if not existing. Create two string value names in the right panel. The first name is name and give the place name that you want to display in place bar and the second name is path and enter full path of the name you have just entered. Click ok to close the registry. Logoff or restart your system. 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'.
Second, go to <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Open Find\Places\UserDefinedPlaces\] </b> and create a new key 'Place0'.
Third, create a String value 'Name' under the key 'Place0'.
Fourth, right click on the String value 'Name' and select 'Modify'.
Fifth, set a user defined Name and click 'OK'.
Create another String value under the key 'Place0' as 'Path'.
Now, right click on the String value 'Path' and select 'Modify'.
Finally set a User Defined Path to add user specific items to My Places Bar and click 'OK'. Please use similar steps to add more user specific items.


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Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Open Find\Places\UserDefinedPlaces\]
  • Location: Current User
  • Value Name: Place(1…n)
  • Data Type: Key
  • Action Type: Add an Entry
  • Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Open Find\Places\UserDefinedPlaces\Place<ID>\]
  • Location: Current User
  • Value Name: Name
  • Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
  • Action Type: Add an Entry
  • Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Open Find\Places\UserDefinedPlaces\Place<ID>\]
  • Location: Current User
  • Value Name: Path
  • Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
  • Action Type: Add an Entry


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