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Office Registry Hack for Dialogs (Pt 2)

Earlier, I blogged about adding shortcuts to the Open and Save dialogs of Office. To hide one or more of these shortucts:

• Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\[version]\Common\Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces

Where [version] corresponds to your Office version: 9.0 = Office 2000, 10.0 = Office XP, 11.0 = Office 2003, 12.0 = Office 2007

1. Select the sub-key of the Place you want to hide.
2. Create a new DWORD value within the sub-key named "Show"
3. Set the sub-key value to 0.
4. Close the Registry Editor and restart an Office application.

If you want it to come back:

• Set the value to 1 or delete the sub-key "Show"

posted @ Friday, June 29, 2007 10:08 AM