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Hi ?B?TWlrZXlE?=,
I, too, experienced the loss of the Startup Task Pane in Word XP (2002). KBA 810162 claims this problem was corrected in Office XP SP3. SP3 is installed on my machine, but the Task Pane still did not display in Word, though it did in Excel. I finally installed the Task Pane Controller, as recommended by numerous MVPs, which does solve the problem. But does anyone know what the story is with the alleged fix in SP3? Is it supposed to correct the problem or not? I'm not certain what problem the fix in SP3 was supposed to address. But the real problem is that there's a Registry key one can set to: - turn it off - turn it on - use the default. And what the default does depends on the circumstances in which Word is started. For example, if it's started by another program, the Task Pane won't display. And that's why the Registry key exists. And the Registry key is what the tool you downloaded manipulates. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |