Greetings -

Office 2010 has just been implemented at our company,
replacing 2003. <sigh>

Virtually every doc I use is in SharePoint.

And so now, when I open a doc from SharePoint, there's a garish, distracting
and entirely unnecessary yellow banner at the top of the screen with instructions
for the criminally uninformed stating:

"Check Out Required To modify this server document, you must check it out."

which I always immediately close. (I've always found the [Read-Only] tag in the Title bar
sufficient to inform me that I'm reviewing a non-checked-out SharePoint doc.)

Is there any way to configure Word and/or SharePoint so that this banner doesn't appear?

Thanks kindly,

- Richard