Disable the Research Task Pane in Excel/Office

Question

Hi all,

Can how I disable the Research Task Pane in MS Excel/Office 2003?

Thanks for your help in advance,

Donald

Answer 1

Hi Donald,

Do you mean to stop the task pane from appearing at Excell startup or disable it altogether?

If you want to disable it, I can't help you, sorry, but if you want it to stop appearing go to "Tools", "Options" menu, then in the View tab, and uncheck "Startup Task Pane."

If it doesn't works, have a look at http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000753.htm; I'm told you may have to manually edit the registry in some cases. (Danger, Will Robinson!)

Regards, Pascal Marier-Dionne

Answer 2

I want to disable altogether for the Research task pane.

Thanks

Answer 3

You can't disable it. You can only remove all the services it tries to use then keep closing it. It comes up from various key combinations like Ctrl+Whatever or Alt+Whatever.

Answer 4

There seems to be a solution from Microsoft support guys; I never used it though

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/innovateonoffice/thread/1015657f-7cf1-4926-99c7-b64bbd2fb291