For those of you who use Word, you’ll notice that a splash screen appears on your desktop as the program is opening. Some of you may not mind the waiting for the splash screen to disappear while others may want to disable it. Personally, I don’t see the point in having the splash screen there.

You can start Word 2007 without the splash screen using the steps described below:

  1. Create a shortcut on your desktop: right click on the desktop, point to new, and click shortcut.
  2. Type the full path to Word 2007 on your computer (the default is probably “c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe”
  3. After the full path, add a space, and then /q (the full path will look similar to “c:\program files\Microsoft Office\office12\winword.exe /q”
  4. Click finish.

To launch Word 2007 without the splash screen, simply double click the shortcut you just created.