I also have Word set not to use the startup task pane, but I get the New
Document task pane when I use the New... command. Are you sure you haven't
either replaced that menu item or overridden the command with a macro?
There's a KB article that suggests recording a FileNew macro to use the
FileNew command, which seems pretty silly to me, but presumably it would
work the way you describe. Or perhaps this was something that was corrected
by one of the service packs? I haven't applied either of them, figuring that
at this point I'll just wait for Office 2003.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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