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Customising dialog file boxes
Using Win XP sp2 and MS Office XP
In the left side bar of open/save dialog boxes are a list of default options. I want to change the list of icons/ text and pointers to the relevant directories on various drives around the organisation. I used TweakUI to customise the Places bar. This made no change to the dialog boxes in Word or Excel. But it did change the open dialog boxes for Adobe Reader 7 and Endnote. The text captions were unfortunately arbitrarily chosen by the software. Now all have the same name of Velson, since my folders on the different drives have the same name to aid other users in finding files relevant to my work. So: 1. How should one apply the dialog box changes to MS Office programmes? 2. How does one specify meaningful text to go with each link? Thank you for your help. |
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See http://www.gmayor.com/customize_the_word_places_bar.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Velson" wrote in message ... Using Win XP sp2 and MS Office XP In the left side bar of open/save dialog boxes are a list of default options. I want to change the list of icons/ text and pointers to the relevant directories on various drives around the organisation. I used TweakUI to customise the Places bar. This made no change to the dialog boxes in Word or Excel. But it did change the open dialog boxes for Adobe Reader 7 and Endnote. The text captions were unfortunately arbitrarily chosen by the software. Now all have the same name of Velson, since my folders on the different drives have the same name to aid other users in finding files relevant to my work. So: 1. How should one apply the dialog box changes to MS Office programmes? 2. How does one specify meaningful text to go with each link? Thank you for your help. |
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Hi ?B?VmVsc29u?=,
Using Win XP sp2 and MS Office XP In the left side bar of open/save dialog boxes are a list of default options. I want to change the list of icons/ text and pointers to the relevant directories on various drives around the organisation. I used TweakUI to customise the Places bar. In Word 2003 you can navigate to the directory, then use the "Add to my places" entry in the "Tools" menu (at the far right) in the dialog box. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Thank you for the help. The OPiE utility did the job well.
In contrast, using TweakUI does not give a coherent reaction. I had tried to change the place bar settings (see previous mailing) but the change was only registered in Adobe and Endnote, not in Word or Excel. The "Add to places" option on Tools was greyed out in these. When I used TweakUI to change the setting to default. the Adobe dialog box place bar changed back to default, but Word still retained the greyed out option. I think TweakUI needs to be tweaked. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?VmVsc29u?=, Using Win XP sp2 and MS Office XP In the left side bar of open/save dialog boxes are a list of default options. I want to change the list of icons/ text and pointers to the relevant directories on various drives around the organisation. I used TweakUI to customise the Places bar. In Word 2003 you can navigate to the directory, then use the "Add to my places" entry in the "Tools" menu (at the far right) in the dialog box. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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