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InDesign 2024 Windows version option show home screen is gone, and more.

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March 7, 2024
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For me anyway, InDesign 2024 on Windows 11 preferences, General, the option "Show Home Screen When No Documents Are Open" is absent. It still appears macOS version. So the home screen would always show and I couldn't disable it. Also, the workspace would reset to Essentials instead of my custom workspace every time a new document was opened. So I uninstalled, restarted, and reinstalled without keeping preferences from 2023 version. That didn't work. Still no way to disable the home screen. Then unstalled and reinstalled and did keep previous preferences, and now the home screen is gone and my workspace loads and doesn't reset. So my problem is solved for now, but the question remains, where is the option to enable/disable the home screen in Window InDesign 2024?

Has anyone else experienced this?

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Correct answer leo.r

I've seen this issue with disappearing option to disable the home screen a few times before.

Normally, you should be able to disable it via a script even if it doesn't appear in preferences.

app.generalPreferences.showWhatsNewOnStartup = false;

EDIT: it's actually showStartWorkspace

leo.r

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I've seen this issue with disappearing option to disable the home screen a few times before.

Normally, you should be able to disable it via a script even if it doesn't appear in preferences.

app.generalPreferences.showWhatsNewOnStartup = false;

EDIT: it's actually showStartWorkspace

willcampbell7Author

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Brilliant suggestion.

"showWhatsNewOnStartup" doesn't work. Perhaps leftover from older version.

However, this does work:

app.generalPreferences.showStartWorkspace = false;

Also, this works to force the workspace:

app.applyWorkspace("William");

Put both in a startup script and it makes a suitable workaround for now.

Thanks again for the suggestion.

William Campbell

leo.r

Community Expert

Glad it helped and good to know it's actually showStartWorkspace.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Will:

This is InDesign 19.2 (2024) on Windows 11 below and no issues.

My guess is corrupt preferences. See if working thorugh this post straightens it out. Adobe InDesign: Rebuilding Preferences and Cache Files – Rocky Mountain Training

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

willcampbell7Author

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Well the good news is it's just me. However, I did all the steps suggested and no good. Still no option to disable the home screen. Worse, the same glitch then happened to ID 2023. I uninstalled both, dumped all preferences for both versions completely, restarted Windows, and installed 2024. Still doesn't have the option. And now I'm back to having a home screen I can't disable.

Edit: most annoying is that every time a document is opened, the workspace resets to "Essentials" instead of my custom workspace.

William Campbell

HARSHIKA_VERMA

Community Manager

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out and highlighting the issue. I am checking with the team regarding the option being missing and will get back to you as soon as I hear back from them.

Thanks,

Harshika

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