Design Template Path in Office 2000

[Guest]

Hi there,

I've got Office 2000 running in a Windows 2000 school environment. As the
students like to try and breach IT security, I've hidden the local C: drive
with group policy.

I was a little surprised to find that Powerpoint Design Templates cannot be
applied. The error states that the path (it's looking for C can't be
found, but group policy states that, while it hides the drive from explorer,
etc, it doesn't prevent programs accessing it. The fact that powerpoint will
run from the C: drive proves this, so is there some way I can resolve this
without un-hiding the local drive..? I can't seem to find anywhere in Office
2000 that will let me change the default path. I understand that the error
message can essentially be ignored until prompted to select a new location to
look in, but this will only confuse staff and students that have "no idea"
(to put it nicely).

Any help is much appreciated...
Cheers

 

[Sonia]

You should be able to change the path in Word. Open Word and go to Tools >
Options > File Locations and select User Templates and click on Modify. It's
been a long time since I've looked at Word 2000, but that's how it works in more
recent versions.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com