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How To Open Blank Document By Default In Office Word

Last Updated on May 11, 2022 by admin 8 Comments

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The Word application in Microsoft Office displays a page called Start screen upon running the program. The Start screen (not to be confused with the Start screen of Windows OS) shows up each time you run the Word application.

The Start page displays all available templates, recently opened documents, pinned documents, and documents shared with you, if any.

If you always use a blank document, you might want to configure the Word program to always open a blank document instead of displaying the Start screen upon running the program.

Configuring the Word to always open a blank document is easy. You just need to disable the Start screen in Word program to automatically open a blank document every time you run the Word program.

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Although the Start screen in the Word is useful to quickly view and open recently opened documents, you can view and recent documents even after disabling the Start screen. To view and access recently opened documents, you can always right-click on the Word icon on the taskbar and then click on the document entry to open the same or use the Ctrl + O hotkey to quickly view recent documents.

Open blank document by default in Office Word in Windows

(If you are on a Mac, please scroll down to see directions)

Here is how to force the Office Word program to open the blank document by default.

Step 1: Open a blank word document. Click the File menu and then click Options.

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Step 2: In the General tab, scroll down to Start up options section.

Step 3: Uncheck the checkbox next to Show the Start screen when this application starts option. Click on the OK button.

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Restart the Word program. Word program should now automatically open a blank document instead of displaying the Start screen.

Open blank document by default in Word on Mac

Step 1: Open any document. Click on the Word menu and then click Preferences.

Step 2: In the Authoring and Proofing tools section, click on General.

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Step 3: In the resulting page, in the Settings section, turn off Show document gallery when opening Word option. That’s it!

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How to set the Word as the default program in Windows 10 guide might also interest you.

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Filed Under: Microsoft Office Tagged: Office 2016, Office 2019, Office 365

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Comments

  1. Urban says

    January 22, 2022 at 1:58 am

    I have Microsoft Word 365 – do not have the Start up option… !?

  2. Tim Moore says

    July 7, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    07.07.2021
    Office 365
    When the start screen option is unchecked, both Excel and PowerPoint will open the respective program in its “new” (spreadsheet/presentation) state.

    The unchecking must be done in each MS Office program individually.

  3. nuggWin81 says

    April 14, 2021 at 8:32 pm

    Tuening off ‘start scren’ only does just that… the start screen. PPT still opens with a template including 2 text boxes. How to start with an absolutely BLANK page please?

  4. Michael A Woodfork says

    October 17, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    Praise GOD, it works – thanks to all

  5. David says

    April 14, 2020 at 1:08 am

    Un-checking the setting does work.

  6. admin says

    February 27, 2020 at 9:00 am

    Marvin, it does work. I just tried it again to make sure that it works. What version of Office you are using?

  7. marvin hughey says

    February 26, 2020 at 9:05 am

    This does not work whatsoever, I’ve tried this a dozen times. It appears that nobody that list things online have a clue

  8. Robbie says

    March 18, 2019 at 4:36 am

    Same goes for excel. :-)

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