Move the Microsoft User Data folder (revisited)

Feb 28, '06 05:16:00AM

Contributed by: robg

If you're an Office user, you've probably got a Microsoft User Data folder in your user's Documents folder. Personally, I dislike this, and had used this older hint to make it invisible.

Yesterday, while catching up on numerous RSS feeds, I stumbled across this entry on the blog of Panic's Steven Frank, which offers an alternative solution. In a nutshell, to get the Microsoft User Data folder out of your Documents folder, just move it to your user's Library/Preferences folder. Do this while Office isn't running, and the next time you launch an Office app, the folder will stay right where you put it.

When I checked the original hint, this method is noted in the comments, but way down at the bottom, so I figured it was worth sharing again in a more obvious fashion.

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