Disable "pick up where you left off"

Anonymous
2013-05-22T16:45:22+00:00

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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Anonymous
2013-06-11T20:49:21+00:00

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.

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2013-06-10T03:54:05+00:00

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Reading Locations

That looks like a good place to start.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-11T22:14:17+00:00

    duffym111, I was going to suggest that too.  

    Finally I can open up a word document, and not have to wait 4 seconds for that message to go away.  I hated it because that thing would take the keyboard focus and my CTRL-F wouldn't bring up the find dialog.  Microsoft just trying to slow me down.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-06-11T17:28:14+00:00

    So close!!! That is, indeed, where they track it. I deleted the key and everything was A-Ok...then I restarted my machine and (darn it!) there was that irritating popup flag again, and it had gone ahead and reinserted the key into the registry.

    I still think you're on to something here. I'll keep playing with it.

    Thanks!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-05-23T15:09:35+00:00

    That's unfortunate. Any chance you can just tell me where the registry key for this "feature" is so I can delete it from there?

    Many thanks,

    L

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