LSDWho Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 Hi, We're looking to upgrade our Office version in our school from 2003 to 2010. As part of that I need to recreate the account we use for exams / controlled assessments that restricts use of Spellcheck, Thesaurus, translations etc within Word. The task is almost complete (ribbon options locked, keyboard shortcuts removed etc) using mainly group policy with the odd thing locked with a mandatory profile. However, there is one problem that persists that I have yet not been able to solve - the right-click context menu within Word. Ideally I'd like to remove just the "Look up", "Synonyms" and "Translate" options, but as a fallback we can lose the entire context menu if needed (or indeed possible). I though the solution may lie in the disabling the contextMenu control ID's in the word 2010 Admin Template in Group Policy, but I can't seem to track down the ID's for these functions. Anyone managed to resolve this problem by any means? Cheers, LSD
LSDWho Posted March 21, 2011 Author Posted March 21, 2011 All, Just in case anyone else is looking for the answer to this I got a reply on the MS Technet forum with the answer... You can use following registry key to disable "Look Up", "Synonyms" and "Translate" option and its sub-menu items, from right-click context menu. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\14.0\Word\DisabledCmdBarItemsList] "TCID"="20392" "TCID1"="30475" "TCID2"="7021" "TCID3"="16631" "TCID4"="18355" Make sure this registry key is applied to all concerned users (via log-on script or other means) since this a HKCU registry key. You can restrict access to registry editor to prevent users from changing these settings. I didn't have any of the Key values below "Office", but if you manually create the keys and then add the String values listed all works perfectly. Here's the technet forum link if anyone wants to take a nose there... Word 2010 - remove right-click context menu Cheers, LSDWho 1
LSDWho Posted March 22, 2011 Author Posted March 22, 2011 Just a further update - have just tried adding the 5 ID numbers in the Word 2010 ADM Template within Group Policy and the result is the same. Just saves having to do a reg hack to the user. Once you've installed the Office 2010 ADM templates go to: User Configuation / Administrative Templates / Microsoft Word 2010 / Word Options / Disable Items In User Interface / Custom / Disable Commands Enable this, "Show" the IDs and add 16631, 18355, 20392, 30475 & 7021 Hope this helps - different method to the same outcome. LSD 1
enjay Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 @LSDWho That is awesome. I'd got as far as doing the toolbar menus, but couldn't work out how to adjust the context menu. Unfortunately, we're still not quite there as users can still Alt+Click on a word to open the Research Pane, even though that is disabled (Policy ID 7373 and 7387). Did you find a way around that one, too?
LSDWho Posted February 8, 2012 Author Posted February 8, 2012 Hi Enjay, As it was a while ago I can't exactly remember what each of the disabled ID's that I entered into the policy do. In the hopes that it helps below is a full list of all the IDs I disabled. And below that all the disabled Shortcut Keys with modifiers. Disable commands 11323 11455 11546 11562 11564 11910 11911 11912 11914 12316 12843 13800 13808 15283 15551 15552 15780 16166 16331 1715 1716 17948 17949 17950 18355 18732 19243 2 20392 2041 20574 20904 20905 21186 21439 22095 22144 22145 2349 2350 2566 2788 30475 3217 3754 6137 6231 6232 6233 6237 6238 6239 6241 6242 6244 6245 6968 7021 7343 7685 790 9056 9317 9318 9319 9321 943 Disable shortcut keys 118 118,0 118,16 118,4 118,8 69,8,4 3
cneilson6 Posted February 8, 2012 Posted February 8, 2012 As part of that I need to recreate the account we use for exams / controlled assessments that restricts use of Spellcheck, Thesaurus, translations etc within Word. LSD Hi LSD Could i just ask how are you restricting the use of spellcheck etc?
LSDWho Posted February 8, 2012 Author Posted February 8, 2012 Hi, Here's the complete group policy settings used for our exam login that as far as I can tell restricts use of pretty much anything you wouldn't want access to in an exam: http://web.alleyns.org.uk/upload/ExamLoginOffice2010.htm Cheers, Lee 1
enjay Posted February 8, 2012 Posted February 8, 2012 @LSDWho - that is truly awesome, I've copied your settings and they work! I've read so many threads on this, and even contacted Microsoft themselves, without finding a solution. Thank you, thank you, thank you, [repeat until fade] :-)
LSDWho Posted February 8, 2012 Author Posted February 8, 2012 A pleasure. Took a load of scrabbling about to get all the info together into something that works. Glad is was of use! Cheers, Lee
enjay Posted February 8, 2012 Posted February 8, 2012 The funniest / most annoying thing about this is that I even asked Microsoft, both via TechNet and also a contact I have who is quite senior within MS, and they were unable to offer a full solution! EduGeek FTW.
Berenice Posted January 26, 2016 Posted January 26, 2016 Thank you! I had looked everywhere for the ID to disable Synonyms on the right click menu. In the past I resorted to changing the default language to Albanian to stop them showing up. I won't have to do that now :-)
Bobby_Moore Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 This doesn't seem to work in 2016 for us, are there any updated commands anyone knows about?
Bobby_Moore Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 It is working with the same codes, just had to do it via reg hack. Can't seem to get the Alt & Click disabled for translate though even using all of LSD's codes... @mavhc some students have spellcheck enabled, some disabled. The functionality is there do it.....
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