Word 2003 - File Locations

[Guest]

Good day,

How can I simply delete a File Location on the tab Tools | Options | File
Locations? When I click the Modify button, it wants me to enter another
location but there is none to be entered. I just want to delete the one that
is there.

Help!

Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Hi Heelne-

Which one in particular? More to the point, why would you want to?

Most of them are required by the program so that it knows where to look for
specified items. Pointing them to a different location is one thing, but to
have no location specified can be a problem.

Regards |:>)

 

[Guest]

Cyber,

Thank you for the info. It would be "Workgroup Templates" and by default,
it has no location defined. A user inserted a location by mistake and wants
to totally get rid of it and not point it to another location.

Is this possible at all?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Yes, it's possible to remove it by editing the registry.

First go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986 and read about how to
back up the registry before you edit it. The change you'll make shouldn't
cause any damage to the registry, but it's a good idea to be careful and
prepared.

Shut down Word (and Outlook, too, if you use Word as the email editor).

Open the registry editor (Regedit.exe or Regedit32.exe, depending on your
Windows version) and expand the keys in the left pane until you reach this
one (replace "11.0" with "10.0" if you have Office XP, or "9.0" if you have
Office 2000):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\General

In the right pane, select the value named SharedTemplates and delete it.
Close the registry editor and restart Word. The Workgroup Templates location
will now be blank.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This Registry edit is also required if you want to delete the path for clip
art (which is necessary if you want Word to default to the MRU folder
instead of My Pictures or whatever else is specified).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Tony Jollans]

No need to edit the registry. You can do this in VBA.

Alt+F11 to open the VBE
Ctrl+g to open/switch to the Immediate window
Type Options.DefaultFilePath(Path:=wdWorkgroupTemplatesPath) = ""
Press Enter
Press Alt+F4 to close the VBE

 

[Jay Freedman]

The only question is which scares people more, VBA or the registry.
<g>

 

[Tony Jollans]

VBA, Scary? Surely not!

Without either then

This appears to work for Workgroup Templates but not for any others I
checked

Tools > Options > File Locations tab
Select Workgroup Templates
Click on Modify
Select My Computer in the Places Bar
Do NOT select anything under My Computer
Press OK