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
    2015-12-06T10:53:31+00:00

    Here's another vote for "Hate this feature". It's just plain annoying. I didn't ask for it, I don't want it, and there should definitely be an option to turn it off.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-06-15T05:48:55+00:00

    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:

        http://rath.ca/Misc/VBA/Word/ViewMgr_v2.1.zip

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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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