[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, I thought double-clicking was a lot more surefire than slamming. And I
quite like it docked. I was just pleased to see it could be resized, as then
I can see quite a nice long list (especially since I've got them in plain
text).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote
in message ...
Hi Suzanne,

Ic you resize the style pane by dragging from either the top left corner
or bottom right corner that size should stick when you dock
then undock the Pane.

Double clicking anywhere in the title bar of the pane (where first click
gives you the four headed arrow) should dock it.

Slamming can be somewhat iffy (unless you're using a slow side). If you
have the Word window less than full screen, or width wise,
for example less than 1/2 the screen width you can drag the Styles Pane
out over the Windows desktop and leave it floating there
rather than further reduce your Word work area.

One of the design changes for Office 2007 was that there wasn't supposed
to be a multipurpose/stacked task pane, although the
Document Map/Thumbnails Pane seems to have skirted that rule by using a
dialog drop down and titling it 'Switch Navigation Window'
(I guess it's a window rather than a window pane g, and that makes it
all different g)

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
It took some experimentation, but I inadvertently did get this to work. I
hadn't realized you could resize this pane (and I don't know whether that
affected the result or not), but resizing it and "slamming" it against the
side didn't seem to help. I kept dragging it into various spots near the
top
right corner and at some point, in desperation, double-clicked, and that
did
the trick.

Unfortunately, now I can't figure out how to make it smaller again! Even
if
I close it, the next time I open it, it's a big pane again--not a bad
thing,
I guess, but not what I expected. Ah, wait, if I move the Move arrow to
the
top left corner of the pane I can make it revert.

So, bottom line: Double-click in the top left corner to dock it. Drag the
top left corner to make it float.

The arrow on the title bar, by the way, doesn't lead to other task panes
as
in Word 2003 but to a rather unnecessary menu of Move, Size, Close.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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