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Have any of you figured out how to turn this "Welcome back, pick up where you left off" bookmark thing? I've gone through all the options and add-ins I can find, and I can't make it stop doing this.
Thanks!
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On the same track I deleted all the subkeys under 'Reading Locations' and then made the 'Reading Locations' key read-only to everyone.
This has stopped Word writing to the key and I no longer get the message when I re-open a document.
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Reading Locations
That looks like a good place to start.
First, clicking Close just closes the file. It doesn't change anything.
Second, there is no menu or dialog box labelled "View Options."
Third, now my document is in that annoying and useless "Reading Mode" and there's button to get out of it!
These automatic whatevers that y'all come up with are never helpful. People who read long documents already know how to mark their place, using a method they choose. If you invent an obnoxious little flag thing that pops a comment box up in my face when I start my working day, you need to make sure it's easy to turn off!
The regedit fix does not seem to work for documents saved to OneDrive -- which in turn makes OneDrive sort of useless to me, as I am just as annoyed with this "feature" as others are. MS, why don't you give users the option to turn this feature on or off, instead of forcing it on everyone (or everyone who doesn't want to have to go through cumbersome registry hacks)?
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