Disable "pick up where you left off"

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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

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

That looks like a good place to start.

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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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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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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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