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Change Word's default search engine
Is it possible to change Word's default search engine from www.live.com
to some other engine that I specify? Is this the right group to ask this question? I tried searching and couldn't find anything about it. -- Rob |
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Hi RobG,
Is it possible to change Word's default search engine from www.live.com to some other engine that I specify? Is this the right group to ask this question? I tried searching and couldn't find anything about it. Where are you seeing this? Which version of Word? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) 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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Cindy M. wrote:
Hi RobG, Is it possible to change Word's default search engine from www.live.com to some other engine that I specify? Is this the right group to ask this question? I tried searching and couldn't find anything about it. Where are you seeing this? Which version of Word? I'm using Office 2003 on Windows XP (I don't know which version of Word that is). On the web toolbar, there's a search icon that, when clicked, opens the default browser at live.com. I'd like to change it to Google (or whatever I may choose in the future). The one in Office:Mac (Word 2004) goes to excite.com, so it seems it should be configurable but I don't know where to do it. As a related issue, I'd like to stop the web tool bar from appearing when I use ctrl+click to follow links (it's a stupidly annoying setting, I'd love to know how to turn it off). At the moment I have the web toolbar enabled but have removed all the buttons except for the search button, which to me is the only one of any use. That way when I follow links (say use a table of contents to navigate to some part of the document) my toolbar layout doesn't get modified by the addition of the web toolbar. -- Rob. |
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For the latter problem, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...WebToolbar.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. "RobG" wrote in message ups.com... Cindy M. wrote: Hi RobG, Is it possible to change Word's default search engine from www.live.com to some other engine that I specify? Is this the right group to ask this question? I tried searching and couldn't find anything about it. Where are you seeing this? Which version of Word? I'm using Office 2003 on Windows XP (I don't know which version of Word that is). On the web toolbar, there's a search icon that, when clicked, opens the default browser at live.com. I'd like to change it to Google (or whatever I may choose in the future). The one in Office:Mac (Word 2004) goes to excite.com, so it seems it should be configurable but I don't know where to do it. As a related issue, I'd like to stop the web tool bar from appearing when I use ctrl+click to follow links (it's a stupidly annoying setting, I'd love to know how to turn it off). At the moment I have the web toolbar enabled but have removed all the buttons except for the search button, which to me is the only one of any use. That way when I follow links (say use a table of contents to navigate to some part of the document) my toolbar layout doesn't get modified by the addition of the web toolbar. -- Rob. |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: For the latter problem, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...WebToolbar.htm Thanks. Incidentally, that page has many CSS errors and doesn't display at all in Safari. Firefox 2.0 manages to show a useful image though. -- Rob |
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On 10/26/06 2:15 PM, "RobG" wrote:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...WebToolbar.htm Thanks. Incidentally, that page has many CSS errors and doesn't display at all in Safari. Firefox 2.0 manages to show a useful image though. Hit refresh a few times in Safari, Safari has a bug that stops the last frame content from getting loaded right off. The site might be older than CSS, for all I know--it was developed many many years ago, it has *hundreds* of articles, and 1 or 2 *volunteers* maintain it. Feel free to offer your time to help convert it to a more modern style. If you are on a Mac, you may like to know that there are also Mac-specific newsgroups: See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Daiya Mitchell wrote: On 10/26/06 2:15 PM, "RobG" wrote: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...WebToolbar.htm Thanks. Incidentally, that page has many CSS errors and doesn't display at all in Safari. Firefox 2.0 manages to show a useful image though. Hit refresh a few times in Safari, Safari has a bug that stops the last frame content from getting loaded right off. The site might be older than CSS, for all I know--it was developed many many years ago, it has *hundreds* of articles, and 1 or 2 *volunteers* maintain it. Feel free to offer your time to help convert it to a more modern style. They use CSS so they should ensure their style sheets are valid, or at least don't generate basic syntax errors. The ones that I checked claim to have been generated in MS FrontPage 4.0 - enough said? :-) The Mac section of the site validates beautifully - I'll certainly be using it in future. If you are on a Mac, you may like to know that there are also Mac-specific newsgroups: See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups Thanks, that lead me to this tip (which isn't Mac specific) posted by John McGhie: "I would simply put a hyperlink to Google on the toolbar and copy the icon onto it, then remove the original Icon :-) " URL: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...ee27281a3cd140 Works like a charm! I can even inlcude a link to my favourite news group(s)! -- Rob |
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