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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / September 2006wdUserOptionsPath
hello, we have special made templates for word 2000 now i want to migrate to word 2003. in word 2000 there was a wduseroptionspath, you can find this option under filelocations in word 2003 this is not a option anymore. Now i have problem because the templates are looking for info but the location isn't there anymore. I don't wont to change the whole code. So does anybody now where i can change the location for wdUserOptionsPath??? Greetingz. It most certainly is present in Word 2003. The proper syntax is Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserOptionsPath) How were you trying to use it?  SignatureRegards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > hello, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Greetingz. When i look in the code is see: IniLoc = Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserOptionsPath) & "\labels.ini" when i go in word2000 to the file locations i see 1 option more, user options that i can't find in word2003!!! In this option there is a location to a folder where all my *.txt and *.ini files are. So i thought that wdUserOptionsPath is the code for that!!!! > It most certainly is present in Word 2003. The proper syntax is > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > > Greetingz. That's been obsolete since Word 97, and it's retained in VBA only for backward compatibility. Here are a couple of old newsgroup discussions to refer to: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.word97vba/browse_thread/thr ead/3bc7d3a0b453bc24/cba92a248a023b08?lnk=st&q=wdUserOptionsPath+group%3Amicroso ft.public.word.*&rnum=8&hl=en#cba92a248a023b08 http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.vba.general/browse_thread/t hread/3650560117cc7679/b55724a62e0b0373?lnk=st&q=wdUserOptionsPath+group%3Amicro soft.public.word.*&rnum=7&hl=en#b55724a62e0b0373 According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/157464, "Word 97 stores all of its settings in the Windows registry; Word 97 no longer stores information in an .ini file or in the Winword.opt file the way earlier versions of Word did." It appears that the User Options path was retained in the File Locations dialog in Word 97 and 2000, but then dropped because there's no reason to set it. SignatureRegards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > When i look in the code is see: > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>> >>> Greetingz. Jay Freedman was telling us: Jay Freedman nous racontait que : > That's been obsolete since Word 97, and it's retained in VBA only for > backward compatibility. Here are a couple of old newsgroup [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > was retained in the File Locations dialog in Word 97 and 2000, but > then dropped because there's no reason to set it. Very weird, this morning I tried the following code: Sub test() MsgBox Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserOptionsPath) MsgBox Options.DefaultFilePath(wdDocumentsPath) End Sub and both statements returned the exact same thing: X:\Office 2003 which is the folder I selected as the document folder 2 minutes after installing Word over a year ago. I ran the code a few times after quitting/restarting Word, always the same result. So I thought that MSFT had decided to let wdUserOptionsPath point to the same folder as wdDocumentsPath (It made some sort of sense in my twisted mind since Option is not used anymore..). Then, to be sure, I changed the path in the File Locations tab of the Options dialog and ran the code again. This time I got two different results: Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserOptionsPath) = X:\Office 2003 (Still!) Options.DefaultFilePath(wdDocumentsPath) = X:\Office 2003\Test (The new path I had set) So, again to make sure, I restarted Word and ran the code again, and I got different results again: Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserOptionsPath) = c:\program files\common files\system\msmapi\1033 Options.DefaultFilePath(wdDocumentsPath) = X:\Office 2003\Test (The new path I had set) I have since changed the Documents folder path and restarted Word numerous times; now wdUserOptionsPath consistently points to the 1033 folder. Really weird, no? SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org >Jay Freedman was telling us: >Jay Freedman nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > >Really weird, no? I'll see your weird and raise you $5 :-) I just tried the same thing you described. In my case, after restarting Word, the UserOptionsPath returns "c:\program files\symantec antivirus" (!). A bit more about this: When you haven't customized your Documents location, there is no registry entry to tell Word where that location is, so it uses its internal default of the My Documents folder for the current profile. As soon as you do customize it, you get a DOC-PATH value under the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options to contain the new value. If you later set the Documents location back to the My Documents folder, the registry value disappears. It seems that the UserOptionsPath initially points to the same folder as the Documents path, but when the registry entry comes into existence then the UserOptionsPath gets set to some completely random place in the file system. The odd part is that it doesn't change again after the Documents path is reset and DOC-PATH gets removed. I couldn't find that string in any Office-related part of the registry, either. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Martin was telling us: Martin nous racontait que : > hello, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > So does anybody now where i can change the location for > wdUserOptionsPath??? On my machine with Word 2003 I just ran this code: MsgBox Application.Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserOptionsPath) and got the expected result. "wdUserOptionsPath" is the path to the folder the user has defined as the default folder to open/save documents. Without knowing what your code does with this option, it is difficult to offer any advice... SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org When i look in the code is see: IniLoc = Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserOptionsPath) & "\labels.ini" when i go in word2000 to the file locations i see 1 option more, user options that i can't find in word2003!!! In this option there is a location to a folder where all my *.txt and *.ini files are. So i thought that wdUserOptionsPath is the code for that!!!! > Martin was telling us: > Martin nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Without knowing what your code does with this option, it is difficult to > offer any advice... Martin was telling us: Martin nous racontait que : > When i look in the code is see: > > IniLoc = Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserOptionsPath) & "\labels.ini" On your Office 2003 machine, look in Tools > Options...> File Locations tab > Documents. Note down that path. For the sake of clarity, let's say it points to "C:\MyDocuments" Now, on the same machine, make sure that the file "labels.ini" is located in the "C:\MyDocuments" folder and that you have read/write access to that folder. SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org Jean-Guy Marcil was telling us: Jean-Guy Marcil nous racontait que : > Martin was telling us: > Martin nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > located in the "C:\MyDocuments" folder and that you have read/write > access to that folder. Sorry Martin, I did some more experimenting...and you can ignore my previous message. See my other post in reply to Jay. If you do not want to change the code, run MsgBox Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserOptionsPath) to see where it points. Put you "labels.ini" file in that folder. If it points to the same place as Options.DefaultFilePath(wdDocumentsPath) then change the document folder path (Tools > Options > File Locations...), restart Word and run the code again (Also in my other message in response to Jay). Otherwise, you are going to have to change the code. SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org > hello, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Greetingz. Here is how you can change it. You can set this value in the registry. I had the same issue and found that this worked for me. This is the same registry key that Word 97 saves the value to. Word 2003 just removed the setting in the file locations in Options. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options] "INI-PATH"="[Whatever location you want to set]" -Brian |
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