Below are the steps required for disabling the task pane feature from the Windows registry. When this occurs, modify the Windows registry. There are some situations where following the steps above do not disable this feature.

The next time you open Microsoft Word, the task pane should not open automatically.

Uncheck the box for the Startup Task Pane option.

In the Options window, click the View tab.

Users who do not use this feature of Office or only want it to show when they choose can follow the steps below. However, in Microsoft Office 2003, the task pane can be set to load automatically each time Microsoft Word opens. You can do this via Tools-> Options-> tab Mail Format.Microsoft Office users can close the task pane any time by clicking the 'X' in the top-right side of the task pane window. To use the Office Clipboard in previous versions of Outlook, you must have Word set as your email editor. You can enable this shortcut by pressing the Options button at the bottom of the Office Clipboard pane and selecting: Show Office Clipboard when CTRL+C pressed Twice.Įnabling the option “Show Office Clipboard Automatically” also enables the keyboard shortcut.Įnabling the 2x CTRL+C keyboard Office Clipboard keyboard shortcut Office Clipboard in previous versions of Outlook When you’ve got some text selected, you can then also quickly open the Office Clipboard by pressing CTRL+C twice in short succession. Since you are probably copying text via the CTRL+C keyboard shortcut, you might want to enable the keyboard shortcut for the Office Clipboard as well. Here press the little expand arrow in the right bottom corner to show the Office Clipboard.Ī very small button allows you to open the very useful Office Clipboard. To enable it, when composing a new message, on the Message tab on the left side you'll see the Clipboard section.

The Office Clipboard feature still exist all the way up to Outlook 2016. I remember that when I used to do a lot of copy/paste actions, I had an Office Clipboard pane on the left which allowed me to easily select from recent copied template texts.ĭoes this Office Clipboard feature still exist in the newer Outlook versions?

I've been using Microsoft Office for a very long time.

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