There are lot of improvements in Microsoft Word 2013 and one of the feature that you will notice is the start screen.

The start screen in Microsoft Word contains lot of new options where you can view the recently accessed documents or create or open the documents from the available templates.

This start screen in Microsoft Word is useful for people who wish to access their recently accessed files and create new documents with different templates.

This start screen will show up when you start Microsoft Word 2013 directly. You can disable the Microsoft Word 2013 start screen by following the below steps.

Note that the steps remain the same for Excel and other products in the Microsoft Office suite too.

How to Disable start screen in Microsoft Word 2013?

1. Start Microsoft Word 2013 Preview and click on the Blank document template.

2. Navigate to File -> Options

3. In the Options Dialog, Select “General” Tab and then unselect “Show the Start screen when this application starts” in the Start-up options.

4. Next time when you start Microsoft Word 2013 Preview, you will not see the start screen.