Excel - task pane
 

How do I permanently disable the very obnoxious "task pane"? Using Excel
2003, I can disable it for each file, one by one, but I want the thing to go
away, and never come back. If nulling out the subroutine for that function
would work, that would be totally fine with me. I cannot stand the task
panes in any of the so-called" new and improved" Microsoft Office products.
Maybe "task pain" is a better name for this feature. The same disdain goes
for that animated paper clip.

Excel - task pane
 

Tools... Options... General Tab... Uncheck Startup Task Pain.


task pain wrote:
How do I permanently disable the very obnoxious "task pane"? Using Excel
2003, I can disable it for each file, one by one, but I want the thing to go
away, and never come back. If nulling out the subroutine for that function
would work, that would be totally fine with me. I cannot stand the task
panes in any of the so-called" new and improved" Microsoft Office products.
Maybe "task pain" is a better name for this feature. The same disdain goes
for that animated paper clip.

Excel - task pane
 

Thanks. I had just gone to View, and unchecked Task Pane, thinking that
would change the seed file settings, but I forgot about the Options menu.
Thanks again.

"willwonka" wrote:

Tools... Options... General Tab... Uncheck Startup Task Pain.


task pain wrote:
How do I permanently disable the very obnoxious "task pane"? Using Excel
2003, I can disable it for each file, one by one, but I want the thing to go
away, and never come back. If nulling out the subroutine for that function
would work, that would be totally fine with me. I cannot stand the task
panes in any of the so-called" new and improved" Microsoft Office products.
Maybe "task pain" is a better name for this feature. The same disdain goes
for that animated paper clip.