We all have seen
the splash screen that appears whenever we launch a Microsoft Office program.
Be it Word, Excel, PowerPoint or any other Office program, a splash screen
appears on the screen before actually starting the program. It looks pretty on
the first run but the same screen starts frustrating when you launch Office
programs again and again.
The splash screen
in the latest version of Office suite, Microsoft Office 2010, is useful in some aspects. It
displays all loading add-ones and other things and also lets you close the
program in the mid-way, without having to wait for the window to launch. But if
you run Office programs several times in a day, then watching the same splash
screen again and again for 3-5 seconds might frustrate you.
Users
who would like to get rid of the splash screen and speed up Office startup can
follow any one of the methods given below.
Method 1: The easiest way to
run an Office program without the splash screen. In this method, we use a
switch to launch an Office program without the splash screen.
# Open Start menu. In the
search box, type winword /q to launch the Office Word without the
splash screen.
# To open Excel
program without the splash screen, type excel /e and hit enter.
# To open PowerPoint
without the splash screen, type powerpnt /s and press enter.
Method 2: Users who would
like to create a shortcut of Office programs on the desktop can follow the
steps given below.
Step 1: Do a right-click on
the desktop, select New and then select Shortcut to launch Create shortcut
wizard.
Step 2: In the wizard,
under Type the location of the item box, enter the full path to the Office
program that you wish to launch without the splash screen. At the end of the
path, add the switch (see the list below).
For
example, if you want to create a shortcut of Office Excel 2010 on desktop and
path to excel.exe file is “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE”,
then the full path after typing switch will be:
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE” /e
(Here, /e is the switch for Excel)
Step 3: Click Next button,
enter a name for the shortcut and finally click on the Finish button to see the
shortcut on the desktop. Double-click on the new desktop shortcut to run the
program without splash screen.
Use /q switch
for Wordl, and /s for
PowerPoint programs.
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