Office 2K sucks my task bar

Factual Questions
1

I now work at an organization that uses Office 2K. Some nice features. I like the relationships displayed in table view of Access. I really like the half-assed drop down menus. Mmmm, nice. Bastards. It took a bit of poking about, but I was finally able find out how to shut those down and get full menus every time, thankyouverymuchbillgates.

But what the heck do I do about the Office’s proclivity for sucking up valuable real estate on my task bar? I have two instances of Access open, three Word documents and two Excel spreadsheets. That used to amount to four buttons. Ha! Now, I have twelve. Each bit of Access drops itself into the task bar, and each document now holds its own down there. What a bunch of crap.

Is there any way of turning off this new ‘feature’ via options or via the registry? Or am I stuck with Office 2K the way it is? Thanks!

Rhythmdvl

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For Excel and Access go to Tools->Options->View and uncheck “Windows in Taskbar”. It’s a little more tricky in Word. Here’s an article that explains how:
http://www.addbalance.com/word/w2000taskbar.htm

Now, if someone can explain how to do the same thing for Internet Explorer, I’ll be very happy.