Some of our users thought it might be nice to "hide" the clock within the gray area at the top of an application like Word, Excel, Netscape, etc. If you turn off this feature, the clock will not draw the border lines around itself that give it a 3-D look. Instead, it will simply be a flat gray panel.

Take a look at these before-and-after pictures and you'll see the difference...

With borders. . .

Without borders. . .

 

Even though the clock looks like it's integrated into the grey area above, it's not. It's still a separate window and application. It just looks integrated.

You might want to consider locking the clock in the upper-right menu bar position. (See the Lock feature.)