Remove Items from Office Places Bar (All Windows)

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Remove Items from Office Places Bar (All Windows)
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This tweak is used to remove items from the Places Bar in the Office 2000/XP Open and Save As dialog boxes.

Open your registry and find the key below, where [version] is the Office version number ("9.0" for Office 2000 and "10.0" for Office XP).

Below this key is a series of sub-key representing the items on the Places Bar. Open each item you want to hide and add a new DWORD value named "Show" and set it to "0" to hide that item.


(Default)	REG_SZ	(value not set)
Show	REG_DWORD	0x00000000 (0)


	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\[version]\Common\Open Find\P...

Settings:

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\[version]\Common\Open Find\
Places\StandardPlaces]
Name: Show
Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value: (0 = hide, 1 = show)

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Disclaimer: Modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. We cannot guarantee that problems resulting from modifications to the registry can be solved. Use the information provided at your own risk.

Last Modified: May 14, 2002

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