Disable the Start screen

- [Instructor] By default, when you launch Microsoft Word,…the first thing that you'll see is the Start screen.…Also known as the Welcome screen.…Here you can choose a template to start a new document,…or open an existing document.…In Word for Mac, there's a very similar screen,…called the Word Document Gallery.…But what if you prefer to start with a blank document…every time you open Word.…In that case, this Start screen…is an extra unnecessary step.…So let's see how to disable the Start screen.…We'll start here on Word for Windows…then we'll switch over to the Mac version.…So we need to go into the Options panel.…

Here on the Start screen,…you'll find that on the sidebar on the left.…But if you're already in a document,…you can go to the backstage view.…Just click on File to go to backstage,…and you can get to the Options button from here.…Here in Options, we want to make sure…we're in the General category.…Scroll down a bit to Start up options,…and disable this option to show the Start screen…when this application starts.…