[Andrzej Jakubowski]

Ajakibs wrote:
Hi Suzanne,
[...]
In present situation I can propose the simplest way of the problem fixing:

1. Using Windows Regedit utility find the Registry subkey:

HKEY\CURRENT-USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Common\General

2. Go to the value named: "DoNotDismissFileNewTaskPane" and choose the
value "1" (i.e do not dismiss) or "0" (i.e. do dismiss).

Remark: Of course, the subkey "10" is for Word 2002/XP users and the
subkey "11" should be considered (in place of "10") by the users of Word
2003. [...]

Sorry, but some misprint has occured in my cited above message. Namely, the
the registry subkey name should be written as follows:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\ Common\General"

Moreover, one has to check additionally the following Windows Registry
entry:

"HKEY_USERS\S-heksadecimal user
ID\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Common\General" ;

and - once again - the subkey value "DoNotDismissFileNewTaskPane" should be
set to "1".

In the given above Registry path the heksadecimal user ID is a specific
user ID determined as a heksadecimal number. Thus, the above means that -
for any particular user - the given above subkey should be find using the
standard "Registry Editor Edition Find" function (applied for the Hive:
HKEY_USERS).

Regards, Ajakibs
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Andrzej Jakubowski
Systems Research Institute, Polish Acad. of Sciences
Warsaw, Poland
Windows XP (SP-3) Pro, MS Office XP (SP-3)