Customising the My Documents folder

[Guest]

Hi,

Not sure if you can help but I'll give it a go.

We have renamed the My Documents folder on our users PCs to Private
Documents. This folder is also redirected to a network folder by Group
Policy. This has worked very well.

The problem we have is this:

When a user opens, say, an Offcie application like Word and they click the
Open button, the icon for the My Documents folder is still called My
Documents. This will throw up confusion for our users when we roll out this
change as we want to be able to tell them My Documents is now Private
Documents.

Anyway, my question is this, how are we able to change the name of the My
Documents folder in the Open box within Word (any any other application for
that matter)?

Thansk for your help in advance,

Jamie

 

[Wesley Vogel]

How to Customize the Places Bar Word 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;205041

How to customize the My Places bar in the "Open" and "Save As" dialog boxes
in Office XP programs
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282087

Customize the Places Bar in Office XP
http://www.petri.co.il/customize_the_places_bar_in_office_xp.htm

How to customize the My Places bar in both the Open and the Save As dialog
boxes in Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826214

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[Guest]

Thanks for the help. It has opened my eyes to a few things but doesn't help
me out.

The document you showed me says that teh MY Documents folder can't be
renamed on the My Places bar. I'm hoping there is a way to change it by
editing the registry or something similar as we need to script this change so
it runs in a Group Policy.

Thanks again for your help. Any more help would be appreciated!

Jamie

 

[Keith Miller]

You can hide the built-in My Documents as described in the article and then add a link to Private Documents.

Keith

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I included four links in my post. Did you read all of them? At least three
of them have everything you need.

The first link says...
[[Removing a Default Icon in the Places Bar
You can also remove default icons from the Places Bar by modifying the
system registry.]]
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;205041

The second link...
How to Edit the Registry to Hide Desktop Items
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282087#XSLTH3175121122120121120120

The fourth link...
How to Edit the Registry to Hide Desktop Items
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826214#XSLTH3161121123120121120120

Add Private Documents.

Adding a User-Defined Entry to the Places Bar
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;205041

How to Add Items to the "My Places" Bar
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282087#XSLTH3138121122120121120120

How to Add Items to the My Places Bar
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826214#XSLTH3131121123120121120120

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Version ###\Common\
Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces
Value Name: Show
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data: 0

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Version ###\Common\
Open Find\Places\UserDefinedPlaces\Place0
Value Name: Name
Data Type: REG_SZ
Value Name: Private Documents

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