Modify Default Office 2013 Search With Bing to Google


While there are some things I dislike in Office 2013 ( The limited "Office Theme" being one of them)

One of the features in Office 2013 that I like is the "Search with" but by default it is set to "Search with Bing" 

I would rather use Google.

By two simple registry additions we can change this to "Search with Google"

Open the registry editor  (start \ run \ regedit)
Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General

1) Right click in an open area of the right pane.

Click New

Select String Value

Add the value name =  SearchProviderName

Add the value data  = Google


2) Right click in the open area of the right pane again.

Click New

Select String Value

Add the value name = SearchProviderURI

Add the value data =  http://www.google.com/search?q=

(Note the last letter in the value name is i as in indigo not l as in lima)







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