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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.
Just one more example of Microsoft dumbing down their products to the lowest common denominator. Of course when they fully succeed there won't be any reason for business and professional users to pay for it vs using one of the free common-denominator word processors on the market. But MS probably won't get that until it's too late to save Word. When you add up all the computer-saavy people staying with Windows 7 (or XP) and Office 2010 (or 2003), I wonder where their sales are coming from.
With decades of programming experience behind them I would hope the guys at Microsoft can find a way to cater to both new and experienced customers. Like having a "turn off this feature" button.
Sure they do, but they CHOSE NOT TO!
They "KNOW" that this is a feature that EVERYONE will love, so GET REAL, there is no need to turn it off! <heavy sarcasm>
This is the same "they" that made similar decisions about the "ribbon", "Metro", default save to skydrive, no need for "Start button" and other wonderful one way changes ... <sigh>
With decades of programming experience behind them I would hope the guys at Microsoft can find a way to cater to both new and experienced customers. Like having a "turn off this feature" button.