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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.
Even though I did not post the original query, I thank you greatly for your detailed replies to the person who did. I've been trying for years to find a way to suppress the annoying "Welcome back!" feature. Most posts said it can't be done. My initial testing indicates your method did. Thank you again!
A programmatic way to dismiss the Welcome Back panel is to put this code in your Normal.dotm file:
Sub AutoOpen()
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory, Extend:=wdMove
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory, Extend:=wdMove
End Sub
This code moves the cursor to the bottom of the document and then back up to the top.
If you’d rather not fiddle with VBA macros, then I’ve also put this capability into an Add-In. You can configure the add-in to dismiss the Welcome Back panel, and also to force documents to open in Draft View mode (or any other view of your choice); which restores functionality that MS removed in Word 2013. The add-in can be downloaded from:
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