Mary, and all interested, I copied this from the Word help. If you can use the mouse to find the little close box on this floating tool bar I think this will do what you are wanting. HTH Shannon I pasted the info below. HELP TEXT FROM WORD: If you close the Clipboard toolbar three times in a row without using Paste All or any of the item buttons, the Clipboard toolbar will no longer appear automatically. To show the Clipboard toolbar again, point to Toolbars on the View menu, and then click Clipboard. You can also show the Clipboard toolbar again by copying an item two times consecutively. When you display the Clipboard toolbar manually and then click Paste All or click an individual item, the count is reset. From that point on, the Clipboard toolbar appears automatically again. You can also reset the count by resetting the program tips: 1.. Click the Office Assistant. If the Assistant isn't showing, click Office Assistant . 2.. Click Options. 3.. On the Options tab, click the Reset my tips button. ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Wadman To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 2:48 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Another Word Quirk Mary, If what you are referring to is that clipboard pane on the right hand edge, you can get rid of it without destroying the clipboard function. If the pane is open (Ctrl-C twice will also open it), you will find a small button at the bottom of the pane. It's called Options and clicking on it will present four options. The second one will collect your copyings but not show the clipboard pane. It is necessary to close and re-open Word to make this take effect. If you wanted to get rid of the clipboard entirely I'm afraid I can't help you. Charlie At 12:27 PM 9/17/2004 -0500, you wrote: I would also like to know how to get rid of that clipboard. I thought I had it turned off. Hadn't seen it in ages. And then it came up and got me this morning when I was working on a project. The only way I could get rid of it was close Word and open it again, but I know there's a way to clean it out without having to do that, or get rid of it, so it won't show up at all. I hope some Word guru has the answer for this one. mary