You cannot keep it from opening. You can tear it off, minimize it to small
and drag it to a less intrusive part of your screen. Publisher will remember
this setting in future openings. You can drag it back use it and un-tear it
off again.

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Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"Impatient" wrote in message
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I do not want the "Format Publication" pane to appear each time I open a
file
or begin a new publication. I can click and close it, but it is annoying
to
have to do it every time.