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. Jay Freedman 208.2K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2013-07-24T01:37:49+00:00

    > Word is not an E-Reader.

    Heh. In the opinion of Microsoft's designers and marketers, you're wrong about that. With Office showing up on tablets and phones (which now account for more than half of annual "computer" sales), they think that people will start using Word as a reader. I sure wouldn't want to try to write more than a few words at a time on any mobile platform, though.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-07-24T02:24:34+00:00

    IMHO Word seems to be moving away from the defacto (Windows) standard for professional writers.  You can not write seriously on ANY mobile platform.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-08-14T09:55:28+00:00

    The MS person answered the question >>>The feature is built-in and currently there is no option to disable.

    No one can shut off this virus, traps keystrokes and causes undue pain to the handicapped trying to use the keyboard.

    MS:   poll your users when you add a new "feature" that cannot be turned off even with good old REGEDIT.

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