I think I remember being able to turn off the splash screen in Office XP
applications, but I can't find the equivalent feature in Word 2003. Since
Word takes so long to load, the splash screen effectively disables the use of
whatever program was in the center of the screen for the duration of the Word
load.

I found the answer already: use /Q as a winword.exe command line option.

Thanks!

"OLiamRoe" wrote:

> I think I remember being able to turn off the splash screen in Office XP
> applications, but I can't find the equivalent feature in Word 2003. Since
> Word takes so long to load, the splash screen effectively disables the use of
> whatever program was in the center of the screen for the duration of the Word
> load.

My understanding is that disabling the splash screen just disables the
splash screen; it does not speed up loading: the splash screen is just there
to give you something to look at while the program loads.

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"OLiamRoe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I found the answer already: use /Q as a winword.exe command line option.
>
> Thanks!
>
> "OLiamRoe" wrote:
>
> > I think I remember being able to turn off the splash screen in Office XP
> > applications, but I can't find the equivalent feature in Word 2003.
Since
> > Word takes so long to load, the splash screen effectively disables the
use of
> > whatever program was in the center of the screen for the duration of the
Word
> > load.