InDesign 2023 (v. 18.5) Welcome Screen

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August 16, 2023
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How can I turn off the welcome screen for version 18.5 of InDesign? Previous version(s) had a "hide welcome" button. But there is not one in latest version of InDesign. I like having thumbnails of previous work showing, but I rather not see the "welcome screen" at top of page. I have tried all suggestions but nothing works. If I open a document, then close it, welcome screen is gone. But, if I close program altogether and reopen the welcome screen comes back. Is there anyway to permanently turn it off?

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Did you check the preferences window to check if you checked the "Use Legacy "New Document" Dialog". See the screenshot

-Manan

mcramblittAuthor

Inspiring

I had done that. But each time I open InDesign it still shows the welcome. Guess I will just have to put up with it. Really wish Adobe would put the button back that says "hide layout options." Thanks for your help anyway.

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

I assume you're looking for this option:

Normally, it should be still there in InDesign. But I saw several posts from users where they also don't have this option in InDesign preferences for some reason.

If you're on Mac, then you should be able to disable the home screen by running this script:

tell application "Adobe InDesign 2023" to set show start workspace of general preferences to false

(Open Script Editor from Applications/Utilities folder, copy-paste the script, click the 'play' button).

If you're on Windows, then I'm sure other users will post a JavaScript version of the script.

JS for your code would be

app.generalPreferences.showStartWorkspace = false

-Manan

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