From: Terry Farrell on
You'll be disappointed then.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Gary Gary" <blah(a)blah.blah> wrote in message
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>>> Don't know where the Status Bar is...guess I have it disabled.
>>> There is a bar at the bottom but I thought that was called the Message
>>> Bar. I'd love to know how to get rid of it. It displays nothing...yet I
>>> can't
>>> just right click it, Remove! No can do.
>>
>> The bar at the bottom is the status bar. (There's a thing called the
>> "Message Bar", but it appears only if you open a document that
>> contains macros or was downloaded from the Internet, or something else
>> Word isn't happy about.)
>> If you right-click the blank area of the status bar, you should see a
>> popup menu that lets you choose from about 20 items it can display.
>> The only way to make it disappear, though, is to use Full Screen
>> Reading view.
>
> Well maybe that's something we can look forward to in Word 2010. Thanks
> for the info.