Location of Data Sources

Newuser · June 2nd 06, 04:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields

The default location for the Data Source in Word 2003 is in the My Documents
\ My Data Sources. How can I change the default loction of the Data Sources
to other path without promping me to key in the path location ? Thanks ....

Graham Mayor · June 5th 06, 07:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields

You can only change the data source folder to a sub folder of your My
Documents folder. It is not possible to change it to any other folder. The
data is held in the registry at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\DataServices
The best workarounds are to use the Places toolbar
http://www.gmayor.com/customize_the_word_places_bar.htm or to put a shortcut
to your data folder in the Data Sources folder.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org

Newuser wrote:
The default location for the Data Source in Word 2003 is in the My
Documents \ My Data Sources. How can I change the default loction of
the Data Sources to other path without promping me to key in the path
location ? Thanks ....

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