Remove numbers welcome screen

allways that i open numbers the wellcome screen appears. ho w can i get rid of it?

Thanks for the tip, but it hasn't worked for me, I always start with the Recent Files menu and that hasn't changed the app's behaviour in ... what, five years?
I think I know now how to get around this. The problem with getting the custom open dialogue (or whatever, the one I don't want) does not only apply when I start the app. If Numbers is running in the background with no open document, and I I switch to it by clicking the dock icon, I always get the dialogue as well. But if I switch to the app by using command+tab instead, I don't get the dialogue. That's what I have to do.
Most apps open up with no document, no idiot screen, nothing. It's just there, ready to go. That's the way I want it with Numbers as well. But the app designers apparently think I need some kind of hint on how to get going. I know, Apple apps aren't for professionals, but this kind of "help" without the option of turning it off is not usability. I can't really understand why Apple feel that they have to reinvent usability all the time. The same goes for the Save As command in Numbers (and probably the other apps as well), a very non-standard behaviour for no reason at all.

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