Hi ?B?TWlrZXlE?=,

I, too, experienced the loss of the Startup Task Pane in Word XP (2002). KBA
810162 claims this problem was corrected in Office XP SP3. SP3 is installed
on my machine, but the Task Pane still did not display in Word, though it did
in Excel. I finally installed the Task Pane Controller, as recommended by
numerous MVPs, which does solve the problem. But does anyone know what the
story is with the alleged fix in SP3? Is it supposed to correct the problem
or not?

I'm not certain what problem the fix in SP3 was supposed to address. But the
real problem is that there's a Registry key one can set to:
- turn it off
- turn it on
- use the default. And what the default does depends on the circumstances in
which Word is started. For example, if it's started by another program, the Task
Pane won't display. And that's why the Registry key exists. And the Registry key
is what the tool you downloaded manipulates.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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