Hi,

I just upgraded our Terminal Server to Windows 2003, and replaced Office
2000 with Office 2003. A lot of my users are now complaining they miss the
'Favorites' folder in the Open File dialog of both Excel and Word. I know how
to add a custom folder, but I don't want every user to have to do this
manually and I certanly don't want to do that for them. Is there any way to
restore this favorites folder to the open/save file dialogs for everyone? I
use kix, so a registry setting on logon would be an option, if someone has a
sample script it would be perfect.. Any other suggestions are welcome

Regards,

Jasper

Re: 'Favorites' in Office 2003 on Terminal Server by Buckland

Buckland
Thu Jul 17 06:57:58 PDT 2008

Hi Jasper,

You can customize the list of items shown in the 'Places bar' with registry settngs (\UserDefinedPlaces), but Favorites is not one
of the defaults in Office 2003.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826214/en-us?FR=1

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<<"Jasper Zondervan" <Jasper Zondervan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1E739EB1-5F30-471B-B94B-0991136DCCF0@microsoft.com...
Hi,

I just upgraded our Terminal Server to Windows 2003, and replaced Office
2000 with Office 2003. A lot of my users are now complaining they miss the
'Favorites' folder in the Open File dialog of both Excel and Word. I know how
to add a custom folder, but I don't want every user to have to do this
manually and I certanly don't want to do that for them. Is there any way to
restore this favorites folder to the open/save file dialogs for everyone? I
use kix, so a registry setting on logon would be an option, if someone has a
sample script it would be perfect.. Any other suggestions are welcome

Regards,

Jasper <<
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*



Re: 'Favorites' in Office 2003 on Terminal Server by JasperZondervan

JasperZondervan
Mon Jul 21 01:36:00 PDT 2008

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the reply.
I knew that site already. My problem is that the location of custom places
is in fact a REG_BINARY value. I'm not aware of any way to change something
like "C:\Documents and Settings\" + @USERID + "\Favorites" into a binary
value that office might understand.

Any suggestions?

Jasper

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

> Hi Jasper,
>
> You can customize the list of items shown in the 'Places bar' with registry settngs (\UserDefinedPlaces), but Favorites is not one
> of the defaults in Office 2003.
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826214/en-us?FR=1
>
> ========================
> <<"Jasper Zondervan" <Jasper Zondervan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1E739EB1-5F30-471B-B94B-0991136DCCF0@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded our Terminal Server to Windows 2003, and replaced Office
> 2000 with Office 2003. A lot of my users are now complaining they miss the
> 'Favorites' folder in the Open File dialog of both Excel and Word. I know how
> to add a custom folder, but I don't want every user to have to do this
> manually and I certanly don't want to do that for them. Is there any way to
> restore this favorites folder to the open/save file dialogs for everyone? I
> use kix, so a registry setting on logon would be an option, if someone has a
> sample script it would be perfect.. Any other suggestions are welcome
>
> Regards,
>
> Jasper <<
> --
>
> Bob Buckland ?:-)
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
>
>
>