Hi, Kevin.

>If you have Office 2003, then you have seen the pane that appears to the
>right of the Document/Workbook/Project, ect. I am designing a similar approach.
>
>My pane is a container added to _Screen at startup. Problem is, when windows are
>then opened, it's possible to maximize the window over the pane.

You have to make your task pane dockable and use the form's doc method to dock it to the right or left side programatically. This way, when you maximize other windows they'll take the rest of the client area.

Hope you understand this. If you don't get it, tell me and I'll try building a short example for you.

Regards,