Disable the Office Start screen for Publisher

This policy setting controls whether the Office Start screen appears on boot for Publisher.

If you enable this policy setting, users will not see the Office Start screen when they boot Publisher.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will see the Office Start screen when they boot Publisher.

Note: This policy setting is overridden by the policy setting "Microsoft Office 2016 > Miscellaneous > Disable the Office Start screen for all Office applications" if that policy setting is set.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\publisher\preferences
Value Namedisableboottoofficestart
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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