Changing display of the Help task pane

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 02 Dec 2007 15:31 GMT

I've recently migrated Word 2003 to a new computer and am finding that Help
task pane is displayed differently on the new system. When I type a
question, the Search Results pane opens, and when I click on a topic title,
the topic opens in a new pane. So far this is the same. On my old system,
though, the new pane opened in front of the results pane; on the new system
the results pane shifts to the left of the open topic pane, which I suppose
would be helpful, letting me see what other topics are available and choose
one without closing the current topic, but it also takes up more screen real
estate and (bottom line) is not what I'm used to. I'm sure there must be
some setting governing this, but I haven't been able to find it. Can anyone
help?

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Jay Freedman - 02 Dec 2007 17:48 GMT

In the top left corner of the topic pane, there's a button with the
tooltip of "Untile" (and when you click it, it becomes "Auto Tile")
that toggles that behavior. When it's set to tile the windows, it's
similar to using the Tile Vertically choice on the taskbar's context
menu (except that the Word window is given more than half the screen
width). AFAIK the setting is sticky across sessions.

>I've recently migrated Word 2003 to a new computer and am finding that Help
>task pane is displayed differently on the new system. When I type a
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>some setting governing this, but I haven't been able to find it. Can anyone
>help?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 02 Dec 2007 20:31 GMT

Brilliant, Jay! I knew there must be a way. I think a lot of these settings
on my old machine had been made in a different way in Word 2002 and were
perpetuated when I upgraded in place to Word 2003. I distinctly recall some
Help task pane options settings at the bottom of the pane in some version,
presumably 2002.

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Words into Type
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> In the top left corner of the topic pane, there's a button with the
> tooltip of "Untile" (and when you click it, it becomes "Auto Tile")
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