>This is from word help: If you close the Clipboard toolbar three times in a row without using Paste All or any of the item buttons, the Clipboard toolbar will no longer appear automatically. To show the Clipboard toolbar again, point to Toolbars on the View menu, and then click Clipboard. You can also show the Clipboard toolbar again by copying an item two times consecutively.
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>At first I was a little afraid...but after a little testing, it turns out after you close the stupid clipboard 3 times w/o using its features (clicking a button) it will go away forever. There is a 'short cut' to recall it automatically if you want, just using clt+c x2 w/o doing anything inbetween. That's what it is referring to when it saying in that last line.

Thanks, I'll try to remember this. I'm using only Excel out of the whole Office, at least as far as writing my own stuff is concerned. Text processing? Well, it all has to go to Web sooner or later, so I prefer writing it HTML right away :).

But then I am receiving a bunch of Word documents here and there, and then I usually need to copy & paste stuff into another app. I usually split the screen between Word and the other app, and then this ugly beast pops up and puts a new strip in the toolbar area... just wasting my real estate.

BTW, I'm amazed that you managed to find it in the help. I was looking for that in the help for both Outlook and Word, and no luck. Actually, most of the stuff in the help is in the category "if you saw it on the screen, here's how we call it and here's what it does", while the "how do I do this" category is reduced to only basic tasks.