Find option in REG KEY

[papou]

Hil all
Word 2003 SP1
Win XP Pro SP1
I am trying to find out which key in the registry should be amended to set
this option in Word:
Options.ConfirmConversions = False
The aim is to modify this key via a script routine through some of our
machines.
Can somebody help?
TIA
Cordially
Pascal

 

[Graham Mayor]

This is stored in the user's (binary) setttings sub key of the Word data key
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Data) - for Word
2003
along with many other personal settings. You will need to address it with
vba using the line of code you have listed.

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[papou]

Thanks Graham!
Could there be a way to identify this particular setting so that I could
user a REG file?

Cordially
Pascal

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Pascal,

No, a REG file will not do. Graham's point is that there is only one binary
(bit-mapped) value in the registry that contains a great many user
customization settings. The structure of that value is not publicly
documented. I don't know of any way to change only one setting within that
value by any means external to Word.

If you overwrite the value for all users with one value from a REG file, you
will destroy a great many other customizations that users may have spent a
lot of time setting up.

What Graham suggests, and I concur, is that you should use a VBA macro to
set the option, and that will alter the registry value without disturbing
other customizations. That macro could be an AutoOpen macro in a global
add-in/template that you distribute to all users, so it will execute every
time a user opens any document.

 

[papou]

Hi Jay
Yes I have come to the same conclusion so I have ended up with a small
VBscript calling the Word.Application object and setting the option to
False.
Thank you very much indeed for your help.
Cordially
Pascal