Every time I open an Office product I get a yellow bar asking me to get the new office (I'm on 365). I have a stable machine and don't want to risk an update going wrong at the moment. (too often burnt in the past!) How do I get rid of this pesky message for good which is using my screen space.

Excellent Question, I hope someone can please please please answer this.

I do word programming for clients so I must maintain the same version of Word as they have. I have Office 365 2013 on one machine, and will eventually put 2016 on a separate machine. Every single time I open any office program and every single Word document, I get a yellow bar that says "GET THE NEW OFFICE It's one of the perks of having Office 365." - My only options are to close just that one instance of the bar, update, or "see what's new."

I cannot find a "I get it already, please stop harassing me, at least for now!" button. I went into my account and turned off office updates, but the message persists. Persistently.

I've searched the internet and found no mention. I only stumbled upon this message as I was about to post my own thread on the topic. Surely RodG and I can't be the only two people in the world who don't want to update right this minute...

See: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...1-65fcba9ac57d. Whether the processes described there actually work seems disputed.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Paul, thanks so much for responding and trying!

Unfortunately that did not work, although the "fixit" thing said it "fixed" the registry entry. Following the thread you provided, I also saw the recommended registry entry, but modifying it manually also had no affect.

I got an answer! Following Paul's link took me to another forum where this is being discussed and a chap named Chanklin just posted a new registry entry there that worked for me!

The thread (Answer is on page 2 toward the end): http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...7-1f363f286f93

Registry entry is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\ ClickToRun\Updates
set the value to 0.

Ah, what a relief it is!