Word 2016 Options - General

Hi Thomas,

Welcome and thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Office Community.

A quick question before we proceed.

Are you referring to start screen option when you mean splash screen?

Please refer to the below article, which is based on troubleshooting Word application and verify the results:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/921541

Hope this information helps. Please post to us if you need any further assistance with Office.

Thank you.

Yes, I'm referring to the Start Screen; I call it a Splash Screen.  And this is showing on all the programs, including Outlook 2016 & Excel 2016.

And the Mini Toolbar is really annoying.

The link you included in your reply does not seem to apply to MS Word 2016, only earlier versions.  By the way, I have MS Office Pro 2016, if it makes any difference.

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for keeping us posted on the issue.

I suggest you to perform the troubleshooting steps from the above article as it applies to Office 2016 also. However, if there is written office15 you may replace that with office16.

Please try the troubleshooting steps and reply to us for further assistance.

Thank you. 

"Splash screen" usually refers to the little window you see immediately before a program starts. To suppress that window when Word starts, you can use a command line with the /q switch. For example, in the Run dialog box, you can type

winword /q

and press Enter.

The Start screen is the one you see after Word has started (unless you disable it in Word Options):

This is exactly what I needed to know.  So when I add the switch "winword.exe" /q, it works.  But one more question :

If I'm opening a document directly, for example, "Sample.docx", it doesn't seem to work.  Is there a switch for that ?