You can close the reading pane, but the border can't be removed or resized.
View, reading pane, off.

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wrote in message
ups.com...
If you got me, there's a dark-grey thick frame around Reading Pane in
Outlook 2003.
Who was that idiot designer which invented this??
Anyway, who knows how to get rid of this "cool feature". I hate it
more than anything in my PC.

Thanks,
Serguei