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
    2016-12-11T03:06:07+00:00

    @Hidayathulla N, your reply indicates that you either didn't read the request or you didn't understand it.  This reply does even begin to address the question.  You should delete your post as it doesn't apply to the thread.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-30T08:36:31+00:00

    Microsoft evidently hasn't been punished enough by consumers for its decades of arrogance that they continue their institutional forcing of unwanted 'features'

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-10-08T18:14:49+00:00

    Per Stefan's advice, I upvoted the following idea on https://word.uservoice.com:

    https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/11490531-provide-an-option-to-disable-the-welcome-back-p

    but I was only the 12th upvote.  Has everyone here gone there yet?

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