The description for turning off the Startup Task Pane says to close all
documents before calling Tools - Options. But, when all documents are
closed the Tools - Options menu item is greyed out.

Open or create a single document and then turn it off by going to
Tools/Options and on the View tab turn off "Startup Task Pane"

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"Andy Parker" Andy wrote in message
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The description for turning off the Startup Task Pane says to close
all
documents before calling Tools - Options. But, when all documents
are
closed the Tools - Options menu item is greyed out.

Andy Parker wrote:
The description for turning off the Startup Task Pane says to close
all documents before calling Tools - Options. But, when all
documents are closed the Tools - Options menu item is greyed out.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...owTaskPane.htm

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What description? You turn off the Startup task pane by clearing the "Show
at startup" box in the task pane. If that doesn't work, get the
TaskPaneController add-in from
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...owTaskPane.htm

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"Andy Parker" Andy wrote in message
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The description for turning off the Startup Task Pane says to close all
documents before calling Tools - Options. But, when all documents are
closed the Tools - Options menu item is greyed out.

Andy is referring to is the instructions in Word 2003 Help:
http://office.microsoft.com/assistan...yID=vet61Ewxi0

Quote:
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Use this procedure to prevent the task pane from opening automatically
when you start Microsoft Office Word 2003.
1. Close all documents and WordMail messages.
2. On the Tools menu, click Options.
3. On the View tab, clear the Startup Task Pane check box.
4. Exit Word.
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Kinda hard to access the Options dialog box when there isn't a
document open. Hmmm...could it be they plan on implementing one of our
wishes?? To allow access to the Options dialog without an open
document?? Wishful thinkging aside, more like they didn't test their
directions.

Although I guess they they at least *tried* to make sure users don't
encounter the issue of modifying options when more than one document
is open where the options in effect for the last closed document is
what updates the Registry and if you don't close the correct document
window last your modifications are discarded.

Oh well, I sent them my feeback...

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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What description?

"Andy Parker" Andy wrote in
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The description for turning off the Startup Task Pane says to close
all
documents before calling Tools - Options. But, when all documents
are
closed the Tools - Options menu item is greyed out.