[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi dderolph,

You're right, it shouldnt' be that hard, and if my memory worked better, it wouldn't have been quite so. When the Task Pane is
'loose' on the top left hand corner is a line of four vertical indentations. If you hover over those indentations (or above the
Title of the taskbar) you should get the four headed movement cursor. When you do, double click and the Task Pane should redock
itself.

(In Word 2007, which no longer has the indentations or a dropdown list of taskbars contained in the Task Pane, just point at the top
of the Task Pane and double click on the title).

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"dderolph" wrote in message ...

Well, I finally got it back to normal, after tremendous frustration. I
think Microsoft dropped the ball here. This should not be so
difficult. Toolbars can usually be docked, undocked, then re-docked
without major difficulty. But, the Task Pane being so difficult is
absurd. I even tried renaming normal.dot and letting Word create a new
normal.dot to see whether that would restore the Task Pane to it's
normal state. It did not.

I intend to never move Task Pane again. I had never moved it before
this incident. The only reason I moved it in this instance was that I
read in a book on MS Office that said the Task Pane could be moved.
So, I thought I'd try it. Big mistake!
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*