The problem for the task pane is that, yes, the start up task pane can be disabled. But if you bring up Office Help, open the Thesaurus, want to create a template, there's the task pane. Word's Document Recovery puts the pane on the left side of the screen instead of the right side. So it's there, waiting for you... 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