Prevent showing New screen on launch

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Registry

HKCU software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\visio\application

Value name: showtemplatepanebydefault

Enabled: showtemplatepanebydefault = 0

Disabled: showtemplatepanebydefault = 1

Description

This policy setting allows you to prevent the New screen to be shown on launch of Visio. If you enable this policy setting, the New screen will not be shown on launch. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the New screen, including a catalog of templates, is shown when you open Visio.