[ROSEMARIE]

EVERY TIME I CLICK ON "NEW" FOR A BLANK DOCUMENT IN WORD 2002, THE
TASK PANE APPEARS ON THE RIGHT IT NEVER DID THIS EARLIER. I AM ANNOYED BY
IT. I TRIED THE HELP MENU, AN D I FOLLOWED ALL THE INSTRICTIONS ON HIDING IT
WITHOUT SUCCESS. CAN ANYONE HELP?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What do you expect to happen when you click New? Are you clicking the New
button on the Standard toolbar or the New... item on the File menu? The
latter will (unless you modify it) open the New Document task pane. The
former should open a new Blank Document based on Normal.dot.

If you're using the toolbar button and want a new blank document instead of
the task pane, use Tools | Customize to replace the button (which has
somehow become FileNew) with the default FileNewDefault button (look in the
All Commands section for these commands).

If you're using the toolbar button OR the menu item and want it to open the
File New dialog, you need to select the FileNewDialog command in Tools |
Customize and put that on the toolbar or menu. For more, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...ngWord2002.htm

Also, for future reference, posting in all caps is considered SHOUTING.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"ROSEMARIE" wrote in message
...
EVERY TIME I CLICK ON "NEW" FOR A BLANK DOCUMENT IN WORD 2002, THE
TASK PANE APPEARS ON THE RIGHT IT NEVER DID THIS EARLIER. I AM ANNOYED
BY
IT. I TRIED THE HELP MENU, AN D I FOLLOWED ALL THE INSTRICTIONS ON HIDING
IT
WITHOUT SUCCESS. CAN ANYONE HELP?

[ROSEMARIE]

Thanks. I wil ltry these.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

What do you expect to happen when you click New? Are you clicking the New
button on the Standard toolbar or the New... item on the File menu? The
latter will (unless you modify it) open the New Document task pane. The
former should open a new Blank Document based on Normal.dot.

If you're using the toolbar button and want a new blank document instead of
the task pane, use Tools | Customize to replace the button (which has
somehow become FileNew) with the default FileNewDefault button (look in the
All Commands section for these commands).

If you're using the toolbar button OR the menu item and want it to open the
File New dialog, you need to select the FileNewDialog command in Tools |
Customize and put that on the toolbar or menu. For more, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...ngWord2002.htm

Also, for future reference, posting in all caps is considered SHOUTING.

--
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.

"ROSEMARIE" wrote in message
...
EVERY TIME I CLICK ON "NEW" FOR A BLANK DOCUMENT IN WORD 2002, THE
TASK PANE APPEARS ON THE RIGHT IT NEVER DID THIS EARLIER. I AM ANNOYED
BY
IT. I TRIED THE HELP MENU, AN D I FOLLOWED ALL THE INSTRICTIONS ON HIDING
IT
WITHOUT SUCCESS. CAN ANYONE HELP?