Do you mean the Styles task pane (which you see when you press
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S, or when you click the arrow in the lower right corner of
the Styles section of the Home ribbon tab)?
If so, you can make it appear for an existing document by creating an
AutoOpen macro that contains the following command:
CommandBars("Styles").Visible = True
For new document, create an AutoNew macro that contains that command. For
more on automatic macros, see Word Help or visit the .vba newsgroup.
Actually, there seems to be an issue with that command (generates an error
if the task pane hasn't been displayed in the current session for some
reason), use the following instead:
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