Start Screen Open your first instance of Excel, and then right-click the Excel tile on the Start screen. Hold down the "Alt" key and click "Open New Window" on the Start screen taskbar.

The new start screen in Microsoft Office 2013 launches every time you open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, prompting you to choose a template or create a black document, spreadsheet, or presentation ...

Disable the Excel start screen for quicker access to your custom template. Set up single-sheet templates to maintain consistent formatting across new sheets.

In this guide, we'll show you the steps to get Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to create a blank document directly when launching the app instead of going through the Start screen.

Now just repeat the process in Excel and PowerPoint. The next time you start each of these programs, you’ll go straight to the edit screen, same as in prior versions of Office.

If you're sick of staring at that Microsoft Word or Excel splash screen every time you start up the program, this little trick will keep it from popping up before the main window. While the splash ...