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When I start winword 2003 it always opens a phucking assistent window on the right side and I have to close it manually every time, how do I disable this?
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@J A Dean:
did that, but doesn't help, it' still opened, when I start winword or when I open an empty document
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I have office 2003 Pro - just tried it twice on mine (just to be sure!) and it works fine - click on my name for my email and send me a short message - if you like i'll connect remotely and look at it.
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the Startup Task Pane is controlled by the following key:
hey_current_user\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options\\StartupDialog
I checked in the registry, and the value is 0. Zero means disabled. Nevertheless, the task pane pops up! I successfully disabled the pane in pp2003 and excel, but winword just refuses to do so. I found a MS page which states that sometimes this behaviour may be cause by certain macros located in the OFFICE11\STARTUP folder (or any other folders defined as startup in the winword options). So I removed all the macros, but it didn't help. the Task Pane still pops up on every winword start
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Sorry for the dealy in replying - I was hungry lol.
I did a quick search and came up with the following which may help you out:
http://www.wordsite.com/downloads/tpm.htm
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cool, thanx very much, it works! actually I was going to write myself a macro to tell word to close the pane on start, but now it's not necessary any more. But out of sheer curiosity, how do I tell Winword to execute a macro on start? I started the visual basic editor in word and created a macro, which is supposed to load through the normal.dot file. looks like this:
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Sub Close_Startup_Task_Pane()On Error Resume Next
Application.CommandBars("Task Pane").Visible = False
End Sub
----------------or like this:
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Sub Close_Startup_Task_Pane()
CommandBars("Task Pane").Visible = False
End Sub------------
I tried executing both macros and they indeed work, the startup task pane is closed, if I execute the macros manually, but how do I tell WinWord to execute such a macro on start? actually I thought it's executed automatically as soon as winword reads the normal.dot file, but it doesn't, cause with these scripts the task pane remained opened when winword started.
Maybe I could create a new macro and put it into the startup folder? but how do I compile a macro in visual basic editor? It allows only to save the files as *.bas files, not as compiled *.dot files.
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Have you tried adding the /m switch?
Right click your Word shortcut and select properties. Edit the target to include the /m switch followed by the name of the macro you want to run at startup.
It should then look something like this:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.exe" /mMYMACRONAME
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hmm, doesn't seem to work. ah, doesn't matter. the programme to which you linked above does the job, that's all that matters.
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You could try going to Add/Remove Programs in the control panel, and then remove the office assistant component. (If I need to install Office, I always uncheck the office assistant add-in though the advanced install options.)
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