See my revised post. I came up with code.

Thanks! All fixed.


And I've discovered, in digging around on this, that no, there is no way to make the pane persistent. But macros to the rescue...

If you add a macro named AutoOpen to your normal template with that or similar language, the Styles Pane will be there every time you open a document.


The keys are the .position, .width, and .visible attributes.


The Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S will now work as well. It was working before, but you couldn't find the pesky pane.