hi

is there anyway that you can change the settings that the
task pane will not come up when your trying for example
to open new document, so that instead of going over to
the right of the screen a dialog box will come up and do
it that way, like in the other versions of word?

this is on word xp, i find it very frustrating that it is
set up this way, im teacher and my students are just
learning computers they find it very hard for stuff like
this

thanks