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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Anonymous
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
    2016-12-11T13:08:06+00:00

    Yes, I deleted all the sub keys under Reading Locations as well as setting Reading Locations to read only.  I'm running Word 2016 with the latest patches.

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  2. Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-12-11T12:47:49+00:00

    Have you also deleted the existing keys under Reading Locations?

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-11T04:48:45+00:00

    This didn't work for me.  Word stopped writing to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Reading Locations but still keeps prompting me.

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