Working with Task Panes


By default, when you start Word the Getting Started task pane appears at the right edge of your Word window to give you a quick way to open a document, start a new document, or ask for help (refer back to Figure 1.6). This task pane is one of many that appear automatically when you perform certain actions, such as starting Word, inserting clip art in your document, or beginning a mail merge. Task panes typically contain information and options that are relevant to what you are doing. They give you a handy way of accomplishing tasks without leaving your document.

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If you'd rather not see the Getting Started task pane on startup, choose Tools, Options to display the Options dialog box. Click the View tab, clear the Startup Task Pane check box, and click OK.


You can also deliberately display any of the task panes whenever you'd like. To do so, choose View, Task Pane (or press Ctrl+F1). The task pane that was most recently displayed will appear again. (Figure 1.21 shows the New Document task pane.) To switch to a different task pane, click the Other Task Panes button to display a list of the other task panes, and click the one you'd like to use. If you'd like to scroll through the various task panes that have been displayed so far in the current Word session, click the Back and Forward buttons . To quickly display the Getting Started task pane, click the Home button. When you want to close a task pane, click its Close button or press Ctrl+F1 again.

Figure 1.21. Task panes give you a convenient way of performing tasks without leaving your document.

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You can display some task panes by clicking toolbar buttons. For example, the Research button on the Standard toolbar (the ninth button from the left) displays the Research task pane, and the Styles and Formatting button on the Formatting toolbar (the button on the far left) displays the Styles and Formatting task pane.




Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office Word 2003 in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office Word 2003 in 24 Hours
ISBN: 067232556X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 315
Authors: Heidi Steele

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