I'm sure he didn't deliberately create this registry entry however Office is
acting as if that entry is there. I didn't have the entry either but when I
created it and set its value to "No" sure enough I lost auto complete in the
File, Open dialog on Excel 2003.

So I'd definitely check his registry (under Office 11 of course).

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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| Hi - I have a client with Office 2003 SP1 on WinXP SP2 - a heavy Word user
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| generally quite tech-savvy.
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| He says that recently, the default behavior in Word (and, all his Office
| applications) has changed - he used to be able to select File | Open, and
| enter the first letter of a filename, and it would autocomplete/suggest
the
| file name both in-line and in a drop-down list. Now it isn't, and he can't
| think of anything he's done to change this behavior, and would like it
| restored.
|
| I had him test this in Excel 2003 as well & the same results occur -
| although he doesn't really care much about this in anything other than
Word.
|
| Autocomplete in Windows (e.g., file | run...) works fine. Autocomplete for
| e-mail addresses in OL2003 works fine.
|
| I've compared all his Word options settings to mine (on which the
| autocomplete feature does work) and can't see anything different. So I'm
| hoping one of the Office/Word gurus might have an idea?
|
| I found a KB article, but it discusses Word 2000 only
| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289193
| ...I don't have the regkey mentioned in my (working) computer, and I doubt
| highly he'd mucked about with anything in his registry.
|
| Any help/guidance appreciated. Thanks!
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