In the menu, choose Tools - Options - View. The very first item under show
is "Startup task pane". Remove the check next to it.

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"Sue0506" wrote in message
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have recently had 2003 installed. When I open up a document there is a
bar
that appear on the right of the screen called "Getting Strated".

How can I suppress this?