Changing default Datasource location

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John - 18 Aug 2005 14:50 GMT

Is it possible to change the default setting for the datasource when you
click 'Open Data Source' on the Mail merge tool bar from 'My Data Sources' to
another folder location?

Many thanks

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 19 Aug 2005 10:31 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9obg==?=,

> Is it possible to change the default setting for the datasource when you
> click 'Open Data Source' on the Mail merge tool bar from 'My Data Sources' to
> another folder location?

No, unfortunately, it's not.

Cindy Meister
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John - 19 Aug 2005 10:48 GMT

Many thanks for letting me know. Bit of an ommission that though!

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Graham Mayor - 19 Aug 2005 14:32 GMT

Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote:

> Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9obg==?=,
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> No, unfortunately, it's not.

Actually you can change it to any other first level sub folder of My
Documents by editing the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\DataServices
I normally have mine set to a sub folder called 'Test'.

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John - 19 Aug 2005 17:02 GMT

Thanks Graham,

Unfortunately our data sources are kept centrally on our Server. I have
managed to edit the registry to default to the top of a mapped network drive
(ie by editing the string in the value data field to X:\Databases) but it
won't accept a path to a subfolder. (ie X:\Databases\Datasources). Although
in any case my prefered path would be:

\\Server\workfiles\DATABASES\Datasources

But this doesn't work at all, with or without subfolders.

Any thoughts?

> Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote:
> > Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9obg==?=,
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> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\DataServices
> I normally have mine set to a sub folder called 'Test'.

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