Once every couple of weeks, my Outlook 2010 freezes up. Whatever I click, I get “Research Pane,” and nothing I type shows up. I wondered if it was a keyboard issue, but other MS applications worked. So after some Googling I found a solution. Need to open VB (Alt-F11) and then the immediate window (Ctrl-G), and then type:
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Application.Explorers(1).CommandBars(“Research”).Enabled = false
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Originally found this as one of the results here:
http://superuser.com/questions/56265/stop-the-research-pane-appearing-in-microsoft-office