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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.
My guess is that most experienced users want a way to turn off the setting in the user interface. However, recent versions of Word (since the introduction of the ribbon) have been made with the inexperienced user in mind, I believe.
You would think that a new feature, that a large number of users wouldn't use, and that presents an annoying inconvenience to people who use Word like I do, could be turned off without a hack (which I'm uncomfortable doing despite being a Word user since WIndows 3.1). I've been using 2013 for 6 months now and I still make the mistake of immediately trying to work in a newly opened document during those first few seconds when the "pick up" notice is displayed, only to discover I've messed up and I have to CTRL-Z six times.
Well, uninstalling Office 2013 seems like overkill, when there is a registry hack that actually works. Of course, it would be even better if there was an option in Word 2013 to turn off the resume reading feature.