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09-14-04, 05:19 PM
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We recently converted to Word 2003 and when I create a
data source, the default location to save it is My Documents, My Data Source. We want our staff to use our network drive to save all documents so we instruct them to change the new file location to their network home drive. The problem occurs when they reopen the merged document. Word attempts to find the data source in the My Data Source folder. They have to browse back to their network home drive to find the data source. In previous versions of Word, the file location for the data source defaulted to the path it was saved to...I'd like make Word 2003 act the same way...Help! |
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09-14-04, 06:05 PM
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The location of My Data Source is defined in the MyData subkey of the
registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\DataServices. How much success you will have changing this to your requirements is anyone's guess. I have not had much success in changing it to anything other than a different sub folder of My Documents. The data does not seem to recognize the full path information necessary to redirect it away from the user. |
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