OFF2000: DocErr: ORK Instructions About How to Customize the Places Bar Are Incorrect

ID: Q248680

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Office 2000

SUMMARY

In the Readme.txt file that is included with the Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit, there are instructions about how to customize the Places Bar in the Office 2000 Save As and Open dialog boxes (on the File menu). The instructions tell you to add an entry to the wrong registry key.

NOTE: The Places Bar is the bar on the left side of certain dialog boxes that contains shortcuts to the History, My Documents, Desktop, Favorites, and Web Folders folders.

MORE INFORMATION

In the "Save As/File Open dialog - Places Bar customization" section, the instructions tell you to add the ItemSize entry to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Open Find\Places\UserDefinedPlaces

The correct key to add the ItemSize entry to is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Open Find\Places

For additional information about customizing the Places Bar, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q205041 OFF2000: How to Customize the Places Bar

REFERENCES

For more information about the Microsoft Office Resource Kit, please see the following Microsoft World Wide Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/

The Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit is also available on TechNet. The Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit on TechNet is updated as needed. For more information about TechNet, connect to the following Microsoft World Wide Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/

Additional query words: OFF2000 ork folder icon change

Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug