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Get rid of Office XP Sidebar
Will be migrating a site from Offce 97 to Office XP (or 2003) and need to
find a way to disable the the right-hand 'New Document Sidebar' which pops-up every time you execute File-New... I know of the "show at startup option" but this _doesn't_ do the job properly - this sidebar will still keep reappearing under certain circumstances. The users on this site are speed-typists. They need to be able to create new documents based on a selection of preset templates. They need to be able to do this quickly and efficiently. In Word 97 this was easy to program using a custom New.. button on the toobar, and Workgroup Templates. This brought-up a folder-based view of the available templates. Which is what I want to achieve here. The Office XP 'sidebar' however prevents this method of working, since any attempt to create a new document causes this (screed of useless technobabble) to appear instead of the template view. Any ideas? I asked this (and did a fair amount of testing trying to solve it) in the days of Word 2000, but no-one had an answer. Just hoping Word 2003 might be better! |
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Get rid of Office XP Sidebar
To prevent the task pane from appearing at startup, download and
install the Task Pane Controller from http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...owTaskPane.htm. To get the New... dialog you're used to, go to Tools Customize, select the All Commands category, and drag the FileNewDialog command to a toolbar or menu. Right-click the new button/menu item and change its name from "Other" to "New..." and remove the old button/menu item. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:31:02 -0700, Ian wrote: Will be migrating a site from Offce 97 to Office XP (or 2003) and need to find a way to disable the the right-hand 'New Document Sidebar' which pops-up every time you execute File-New... I know of the "show at startup option" but this _doesn't_ do the job properly - this sidebar will still keep reappearing under certain circumstances. The users on this site are speed-typists. They need to be able to create new documents based on a selection of preset templates. They need to be able to do this quickly and efficiently. In Word 97 this was easy to program using a custom New.. button on the toobar, and Workgroup Templates. This brought-up a folder-based view of the available templates. Which is what I want to achieve here. The Office XP 'sidebar' however prevents this method of working, since any attempt to create a new document causes this (screed of useless technobabble) to appear instead of the template view. Any ideas? I asked this (and did a fair amount of testing trying to solve it) in the days of Word 2000, but no-one had an answer. Just hoping Word 2003 might be better! |
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Get rid of Office XP Sidebar
Thanks for link, unfortunately while this add-on allows you to control when the Task Pane closes, it still doesn't prevent the Task Pane from hijacking File..New calls. Pity, as I though I had a solution there. thx anyway, Ian. |
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Get rid of Office XP Sidebar
That's why I suggested that, after installing the FileNewDialog
command, you get rid of the existing File New command (both toolbar button and menu item). That way there's nothing left to call the task pain. The Controller is suggested only to keep the pane from popping up at startup (which it sometimes does even if you uncheck "Startup Task Pane" in Tools Options View). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:32:02 -0700, Ian wrote: Thanks for link, unfortunately while this add-on allows you to control when the Task Pane closes, it still doesn't prevent the Task Pane from hijacking File..New calls. Pity, as I though I had a solution there. thx anyway, Ian. |
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Get rid of Office XP Sidebar
Thanks, I didn't realise there were two such very-similarly-named items.
That now seems to give a direct route to the templates. Why MS make it so difficult to banish this intrusive sidebar I don't understand, it MUST lose them upgrade sales. Image an Office with a nonstoppable Clippy... |
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Get rid of Office XP Sidebar
Using Word 2003. I selected the New... button and removed the other toolbar
button. This is usually the first thing I do to the software when I get a new computer or someone else gets a new computer at the office. Unfortunately, I still get the new document task pane coming up on some. (My task pane at start-up is disabled--another item I usually disable ASAP.) I hate the task panes. I hope MS made Word 2007 more consumer adaptable instead of telling us how we want to use the software. I want to be able to turn features on or off, depending upon my preference. That's just my gripe .. . . no response necessary. "Jay Freedman" wrote: That's why I suggested that, after installing the FileNewDialog command, you get rid of the existing File New command (both toolbar button and menu item). That way there's nothing left to call the task pain. The Controller is suggested only to keep the pane from popping up at startup (which it sometimes does even if you uncheck "Startup Task Pane" in Tools Options View). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:32:02 -0700, Ian wrote: Thanks for link, unfortunately while this add-on allows you to control when the Task Pane closes, it still doesn't prevent the Task Pane from hijacking File..New calls. Pity, as I though I had a solution there. thx anyway, Ian. |
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You will find Word 2007 less adaptable than 2003. Many of the features of
2007 are set in stone. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org SassheyNW wrote: Using Word 2003. I selected the New... button and removed the other toolbar button. This is usually the first thing I do to the software when I get a new computer or someone else gets a new computer at the office. Unfortunately, I still get the new document task pane coming up on some. (My task pane at start-up is disabled--another item I usually disable ASAP.) I hate the task panes. I hope MS made Word 2007 more consumer adaptable instead of telling us how we want to use the software. I want to be able to turn features on or off, depending upon my preference. That's just my gripe . . . no response necessary. "Jay Freedman" wrote: That's why I suggested that, after installing the FileNewDialog command, you get rid of the existing File New command (both toolbar button and menu item). That way there's nothing left to call the task pain. The Controller is suggested only to keep the pane from popping up at startup (which it sometimes does even if you uncheck "Startup Task Pane" in Tools Options View). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:32:02 -0700, Ian wrote: Thanks for link, unfortunately while this add-on allows you to control when the Task Pane closes, it still doesn't prevent the Task Pane from hijacking File..New calls. Pity, as I though I had a solution there. thx anyway, Ian. |
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As you've seen, in Word 2002/2003, the New... command opens the New Document
task pane. The command you need to open the New dialog is FileNewDialog. Find instructions in http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...ngWord2002.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "SassheyNW" wrote in message ... Using Word 2003. I selected the New... button and removed the other toolbar button. This is usually the first thing I do to the software when I get a new computer or someone else gets a new computer at the office. Unfortunately, I still get the new document task pane coming up on some. (My task pane at start-up is disabled--another item I usually disable ASAP.) I hate the task panes. I hope MS made Word 2007 more consumer adaptable instead of telling us how we want to use the software. I want to be able to turn features on or off, depending upon my preference. That's just my gripe . . . no response necessary. "Jay Freedman" wrote: That's why I suggested that, after installing the FileNewDialog command, you get rid of the existing File New command (both toolbar button and menu item). That way there's nothing left to call the task pain. The Controller is suggested only to keep the pane from popping up at startup (which it sometimes does even if you uncheck "Startup Task Pane" in Tools Options View). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:32:02 -0700, Ian wrote: Thanks for link, unfortunately while this add-on allows you to control when the Task Pane closes, it still doesn't prevent the Task Pane from hijacking File..New calls. Pity, as I though I had a solution there. thx anyway, Ian. |
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