Word 2007: How To Disable the Splash Screen
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Microsoft Word If you would rather not have to see the Word splash screen each and every time you run the application, follow this tech-recipe to disable it:
1. Right-click on the desktop.
2. Click New and select Shortcut.
3. Click the Browse button and go to the Word executable (“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE”).
4. After the full path and the end quotes, add one space and type in /q.
5. Click Next.
6. Type a name for the shortcut.
7. Click Finish.
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Anke said on December 21, 2008
Dam workout.
What is about starting a Word document directly?Do you think the shortcut is used?
Dphillips said on September 1, 2010
this worked GREAT!
Thanks,
tortilla said on October 7, 2010
Works great, but don’t do it in a school environmaent. The autor of all documents will be “intall.” Makes it harder to catch cheaters. It didn’t work so well for me.