Turn off reading pane permanently

[Eric]

How do I turn off the reading pane permanently? I know how to do it for each
session, but every time I close office and reopen it comes back. I find
that It takes up too much space on the screen.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

View->Reading Layout.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After furious head scratching, Eric asked:

| How do I turn off the reading pane permanently? I know how to do it
| for each session, but every time I close office and reopen it comes
| back. I find that It takes up too much space on the screen.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

In Word, click on Tools | Options | General | uncheck the "Allow starting in
Reading Layout" box | OK.

 

[mark.seymour]

Done that. It resets every time I open a word document attached to an
e-mail, plus it resets other options at the same time, including
automatically create a drawing canvas (I hate that WORSE than the
reading layout!)

Any suggestions for making it PERMANENT?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Mark,

Changing the Word setting in Tools=>Options
for turning off the Reading Layout view should
work for email and making that change
should not change other settings, such as the
drawing canvas setting.

It's possible that you may have a corrupted data
key in Word, assuming you have admin rights to
the registry.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;821713&FR=1

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Done that. It resets every time I open a word document attached to an
e-mail, plus it resets other options at the same time, including
automatically create a drawing canvas (I hate that WORSE than the
reading layout!)

Any suggestions for making it PERMANENT? >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[mark.seymour]

No, it didn't help. I deleted the registry key, went into Word and set
the options the way I want them (I checked the box to display drawing
anchors on the View tab, I unchecked the boxes to allow starting in
Reading Layout and automatically create drawing canvas on the General
tab) and it seemed to work great. However, after I reboot, if I open
an Word e-mail attachment, it opens it in Reading Layout. When I close
Reading Layout and go into Tools, Options, all three of the options I
had set are reset to the original defaults.

Any other suggestions?