Hi Daniel, I misspoke. The spell check brings up a dialog box. The Thesaurus brings up the task pane. Switch to it by F6 and close it with Control F1. Sorry about that. Note that this applies to Word 2003, not Word XP. I actually like Word 2000 and Word XP over the newer one. Disabling the task pane on start up will not keep the task pane from running when using the Thesaurus or template functions. I hope that makes sense. I'm brain dead today. Francis -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx