If you work in an office, you know that there are often splash screens that appear when you open a document or PowerPoint presentation. These screens help to keep people from accidentally hitting the wrong keystrokes or opening files they didn’t expect. To disable these splash screens, you can use one of two methods:

  1. Open the file in a new window and then click on the “disable splash screen” button at the top of the window. This will disable all splash screens for that file.
  2. Open the file in a text editor and then copy and paste the following code into the text editor: # Disable Splash Screen for File “MyFileName” # Set up Splash Screen Settings $splashScreenEnabled = false $splashScreenText = “Disable Splash Screen for File " . $fileName . “_” $splashScreenLocation = “Top left corner” $splashScreenSize = “Small” $splashScreenText_bgcolor = “#ffffff” $splashScreenText_borderwidth = 0

Every time you open a Microsoft Office application, you have to wait for the splash screen to disappear. If you want this to go away, here’s how you can disable the startup screen.

Note: Since we are creating a shortcut this will only disable the splash screens when creating a new document, but it will not be disabled when you open a document by double-clicking on it.

This guide assumes you have the x86 version of Office 2010 installed on a x64 edition of Windows. However if your configuration is different you can find the files to create shortcuts to in the following locations:

x86 Office on x86 Windows

x64 Office on x64 Windows

Just remember if your binaries are in a different location, you mustn’t forget to add the switch to the end of the shortcut or it wont work

Word

Right-click on the your desktop and select new, then click on shortcut.

Now paste the following into the location box and then click next.

Now give your shortcut a name and click finish.

Excel

Right-click on the your desktop and select new, then click on shortcut.

Now paste the following into the location box and then click next.

Now give your shortcut a name and click finish.

Powerpoint

Right-click on the your desktop and select new, then click on shortcut.

Now paste the following into the location box and then click next.

Now give your shortcut a name and click finish.