How to disable Mail Merge task pane in Word 2010?

[davephx]

I have never used mail merge and never plan to.

I have Word 7 since near when came out updating from prior versions.

All of a sudden some doc saved before and reopened have the Mail Merge Pane. I have looked and looked, Googled to try and find how to get rid of that darn pain pane instead of having to kill it every time I open some docs.



Have no idea why or how it got "stuck" on some documents (not new it seems) Can not id what may have been different on those where the pane opens.

Thanks... pulling hair out.