Every time you start Excel, Microsoft pops up the Getting Started pane. If this annoys you and you constantly close it without using it, follow the instructions in Episode 796 to prevent this pane from appearing.
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This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!
Transcript of the video:
Hey. Welcome back to the MrExcel netcast. I'm Bill Jelen. Well, let's fire up Excel here.
You know, every time that I start Excel, over on the right-hand side, I get this very annoying GETTING STARTED pane.
It shows me the last 10 files that I've opened, you know, and the ability to search, and, really, I just close that almost every time.
If that's annoying you, if you just want to permanently get rid of it, there's a way to do that.
We go to TOOLS and then OPTIONS, and go to the VIEW tab.
On the VIEW tab, if you uncheck STARTUP TASK PANE, uncheck STARTUP TASK PANE.
Now, we'll close Excel, start Excel again, and, sure enough, we just start with a blank spreadsheet without having to close GETTING STARTED.
There you go.
Simple little tip.
Well, there you have it.
Thanks for stopping by.
We'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
You know, every time that I start Excel, over on the right-hand side, I get this very annoying GETTING STARTED pane.
It shows me the last 10 files that I've opened, you know, and the ability to search, and, really, I just close that almost every time.
If that's annoying you, if you just want to permanently get rid of it, there's a way to do that.
We go to TOOLS and then OPTIONS, and go to the VIEW tab.
On the VIEW tab, if you uncheck STARTUP TASK PANE, uncheck STARTUP TASK PANE.
Now, we'll close Excel, start Excel again, and, sure enough, we just start with a blank spreadsheet without having to close GETTING STARTED.
There you go.
Simple little tip.
Well, there you have it.
Thanks for stopping by.
We'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
