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On Aug 6, 3:40 am, "Andrew McLaren" <and...@fakeaddress.com> wrote:
> > In My_Documents folder: Under the file type I get this very long text"
> > Microsoft Office Word Document" for my Word documents and the same
> > "Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet" for Excel spreadsheets.
>
> > Now I want to cut down the text details,
> > say: " MS " instead of " Microsoft "
> > and just " Word " instead of " Word Document "
> > - How to do that?
> > - What are registry keys to be changed?
> > My folder is getting crowded and I need to undersize available space
> > to show other columns.
>
> Hi Sharaph,
>
> Run Regedit as Administrator. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.12
>
> The (default) value is "Microsoft Office Word Document". Change this to "MS
> Word Document". Then go and refresh the view in Explorer (eg hit F5). You
> should see the new value displayed in the Type column.
>
> The Word 97-2003 string is under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.8.
>
> Unfortunately, these strings are scattered around various places in the
> Registry, but you can hunt down and change the main ones pretty easily.
> Excel 2007 is under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12, and so on.
>
> I once asked a Microsoft product manager why they insisted on using these
> ridiculously verbose file type descriptions, such that users often only see
> a column of truncated "Microsoft Off"; instead of actually useful file type
> information. As I understood the answer, there were 2 factors ... Office
> marketing guys were not willing to give up the "Office" branding; and there
> was some weird legal requirement to put in "Microsoft" at the front, all
> tied up with the DOJ settlement etc. So we get a useless "Microsoft Office
> Word Document" instead of helpful, descriptive "Word Document".
>
> Anyway, hope this helps!
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

Mr. McLaren, Thank You... it is very helpful, I also used the same to
amend the remaining MS appliction eg PowerPoint & Access.