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Task Pane

By James Marshall, About.com

Definition: The portion to the right of the document area that provides shortcuts to commands and wizards and can be used to display the office clipboard. This feature was recently introduced to MS Office applications; versions prior to Office 2002 (XP) will not have this feature.
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