How do I: Turn Off Auto Blank Page on Start-up?

As I wrote, the feature is already available.

Set the preferences to :

For New Documents : Show Templates Chooser and you will get this dialog on opening:



It gives access to all useful choices:

use a template
ope a recent item
open an existing file.

So, as far as I know, there is nothing to require.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 5 juin 2009 21:31:18)

"Then came the dawn."

Thank you.

Kelly,

For a bit of fun, click on the *Open an Existing File…* and watch the widget-like animation.

Peter

In fact my post gave an illustration of what was said by Jerrold in message #2,
of what I said in several posts
and what said Kelly Coull in its own one.

It's really surprising to see how some askers have difficulties to read the given responces 😟

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 6 juin 2009 09:08:25)

+In fact my post gave an illustration of what was said by Jerrold in message #2...+

My post, the first response to the original question, indicated that I saw the desired behavior and didn't know how to invoke the undesired, Blank New Document, behavior. Thanks to Yvan pointing out the Preference option for a Blank New Document, not that I have any interest in using it.

Jerry

dammittakethealias wrote:
My apologies for not making the original post clear to our non-English-speaking guests. I do NOT want to have the Template Chooser popping up, I do not want a blank page opening, I do not want ANYTHING to open when I start the program. As was discussed, this is not possible. Drop it.

Isn't it the logical behavior.

As far as I know, every Word processor open with a blank document or with a page allowing us to select the document to open.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 8 juin 2009 19:12:09)

dammittakethealias wrote:
My apologies for not making the original post clear to our non-English-speaking guests.

Guests? What guests?

If you are referring to Yvan, you are the guest and he is the resident.

Peter

As far as I know, every Word processor open with a blank document or with a page allowing us to select the document to open.

Not true. As mentioned before, AppleWorks 6 offers the option to show nothing. This is very handy if you want to include the application in your start up items but don't want to have to interact with it right away.

Peggy wrote:

As far as I know, every Word processor open with a blank document or with a page allowing us to select the document to open.

Not true. As mentioned before, AppleWorks 6 offers the option to show nothing. This is very handy if you want to include the application in your start up items but don't want to have to interact with it right away.

Wrong.

I wrote :

As far as I know, every _Word processor_ open with a blank document…

AppleWorks is _not a Word Processor_ but an integrated application.
In such a tool it's logical to default to none because the program can't guess if we want to use:
WP, SS, Paint, Draw, Database.

Pages is a Word Processor tool so there is no need for such an orientation table.
Removing the entry page, we would be forced to enter a menu to be able to reach:

New
New From Template Chooser
Open…
Open Recent > recents items

At this time we have access to all these choices immediately.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 9 juin 2009 09:37:42)