Remove the research pane.

[StopPatronizingMe]

Or make it a preference.

Or make it an easy to locate preference if it already exists.

Do you have any idea at all how business users use your software and what
they are trying to do? Keep it simple. Don't try to be smart on behalf of the
user. Most of your "productivity enhancements" make things take twice as many
steps and then don't provide the correct answer. Three examples: Research
Pane; On-line Help (browsing the index works find, thanks); Search in Windows.

Your patronizing attidude to your core market is a crime.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Presumably you posted this as a "Suggestion to Microsoft." Please note,
however, that you are posting a message to a Usenet newsgroup, created for
peer-to-peer support, where the huge majority of readers have no relation to
Microsoft at all except as fellow Word users, most of whom are just as
frustrated as you are by the Research pane.

 

[StopPatronizingMe]

How do I disable the Research pane?

Presumably you posted this as a "Suggestion to Microsoft." Please note,
however, that you are posting a message to a Usenet newsgroup, created for
peer-to-peer support, where the huge majority of readers have no relation to
Microsoft at all except as fellow Word users, most of whom are just as
frustrated as you are by the Research pane.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't know of any way to disable it. You can avoid having it appear by
avoiding Alt+click.