To prevent the task pane from appearing at startup, download and
install the Task Pane Controller from
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...owTaskPane.htm.
To get the New... dialog you're used to, go to Tools Customize,
select the All Commands category, and drag the FileNewDialog command
to a toolbar or menu. Right-click the new button/menu item and change
its name from "Other" to "New..." and remove the old button/menu item.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:31:02 -0700, Ian
wrote:
Will be migrating a site from Offce 97 to Office XP (or 2003) and need to
find a way to disable the the right-hand 'New Document Sidebar' which pops-up
every time you execute File-New...
I know of the "show at startup option" but this _doesn't_ do the job
properly - this sidebar will still keep reappearing under certain
circumstances.
The users on this site are speed-typists. They need to be able to create new
documents based on a selection of preset templates. They need to be able to
do this quickly and efficiently. In Word 97 this was easy to program using a
custom New.. button on the toobar, and Workgroup Templates. This brought-up a
folder-based view of the available templates. Which is what I want to achieve
here.
The Office XP 'sidebar' however prevents this method of working, since any
attempt to create a new document causes this (screed of useless technobabble)
to appear instead of the template view.
Any ideas? I asked this (and did a fair amount of testing trying to solve
it) in the days of Word 2000, but no-one had an answer. Just hoping Word 2003
might be better!