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SharePoint 2010 change default insert picture location PowerPoint

A client has a SharePoint intranet where documents and pictures are a large part of the usage. I was given the following user story:

"A user goes to a Document Library on a site, chooses New Document from the ribbon, gets the dropdown of available templates, chooses the "xxxxx PowerPoint English" template and starts working on a new document. When they want to insert a picture in to that PowerPoint presentation they choose Insert, Picture and they get the dialogue where the default picture location is set to  [username]\My Pictures. This default folder should be a universal picture library that exists on the SharePoint intranet that has a lot of pictures specifically for presentations. This picture library has one URL, and every user has security access to read this folder."
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I don't use SharePoint so test carefully!

You should be able to change the default location for "My Pictures"

By adjusting the value  in :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
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Unfortunately no cigar with that one on my DEV server buddy.
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Tedbilly, this looks good, but won't that set the default location for all MS Office on the PC, regardless of whether the current file is from a content type on SP or not?

To me the question reads as if they want to point to that SharePoint image library only when the PPT is started from SharePoint, but I may be wrong.
@teylyn: I haven't encountered a specific setting for each Office application.  I wish there was, however I've never heard of it.
@tedbilly: thanks for the reply, it made a lot of sense. Although teylyn is correct. A lot of my clients work revolve around PowerPoint and this would be a great step forward with high quality images and the same branding pictures in all the presentations.

I'll let this question stay out for a couple of more days before I close it down with the answers I have gotten.

Thanks a lot guys!
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To add to @Teylyn's comment, SharePoint has grown rapidly and added a LOT of features.  The product is used far more than people realize.  IE: www.ferrari.com is 100% SharePoint

However, the possibilities for new uses is far more extensive than Microsoft anticipated and although they have improved the integration with Office there is still LOTs of room for improvement.

Sadly there is a bit of a culture gap with Office and SharePoint and they are reluctant collaborators at times.  The Office group are fans of unmanaged code and tolerate .NET and of course SharePoint is managed code and fully embraced .NET.  So, nice to have features like this aren't implemented.
I have split the points evenly between the two guys who have given me a lot of solid information. Since this is a question that doesn't have a "right-wrong" answer, I felt that this was the right thing to do.

Thanks a lot lads. I really appreciate it.
Thanks for the grade. I'm a lass, not a lad, by the way.

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