[Owl1]

Apology and Disclaimer: I want to apologize for the multiple postings,
although not a one is my fault! Maybe it's my dial-up service, but often when
I try to post a reply, I get an error message from Microsoft apologizing that
the post could not be sent and to try again. And so I did!! Not my fault,
period.

Tony,

Thank you very (underline very) for being willing to thinking and write
about this. I do (underlined) appreciate it a lot.

To answer your questions: First, I haven't used other Office programs since
this problem with the Clipboard toolbar began happening, and I hadn't thought
to try it in other programs. I just tried it in Excel 2000, and exactly the
same thing happens the The toolbar appears docked and has to be dragged
with the mouse to float.

Your next question, about the Clipboard toolbar being docked in every Word
document I open: Yes, your interpretation is right: Once I have it floating
in one document and then oopen another, it will be docked in that document
but is still floating in the first document.

I checked the registry as you instructed. There is no AcbControl in the
righthand pane next to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Co mmon\General

The last idea you had, to add a new userid to the computer: Sorry, I don't
know how to do this, and then wouldn't know how to remove that user after the
test. If you think it's worth your time explaining how to do this, I'm glad
to do it. I have Windows XP.

Intuitively it seemed like it would help to re-install Word 2000, and what
you said confirms this.

What you told me about Word 2003 is helpful. I've never used it, and before
I install it would like to understand how Word 2003 offers a Clipboard. If,
as you wrote, it's not possible to keep it visible all the time, I wonder if
it would be worthwhile to install Word 2003 (for me, that is). Is there any
webpage that easily comes to mind that shows what a Tast Pane will look like?
(Please don't go to any trouble to find one if you don't happen to have it on
the tip of your tongue!)

Yes, I do like PhotoDraw. It helped me to design a complex book cover that I
couldn't have done otherwise (PhotoShop Elements was the only alternative I
had).

Last, I don't know enough to know what "interacting with the Office
clipboard via VBA in Word 2000 by accessing the toolbar" means. If (and only
if!) you're not too tired by all this, I'd be interested in knowing what this
means.

I hope this posting will go through without multiple copies! Microsoft needs
to repair something, IMHO.

Thanks again!