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Old 12-15-2019, 12:23 AM
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I recently bought a new laptop with Windows 10 and Office 2019, and I want to disable the "Welcome back" message that pops up when I open a previously edited document in Word 2019.



I found several online articles about this; for example, these:
How To Disable Pick Up Where You Left Off In MS Word
How to Disable ‘Pick Up Where You Left Off’ in Microsoft Office

They advise to open the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\ Word\Reading Locations" key, right-click on "Permissions", click on "Advanced", tick the "Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object" option, click on "Apply" (security message appears: click on "Yes"), and click on "OK".

However, when I click on "Yes" at the security message, the option immediately unticks itself (even when I run the registry editor as an administrator).

Am I doing something wrong, or is there another way to disable this unwanted pop-up?
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If you set the compatibility mode, as in the answer to your other question, it shouldn't occur. Nor does it appear to occur if you have an AutoOpen macro with the line
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Selection.HomeKey wdStory
Frankly it is not an issue worth worrying about. You can ignore it and continue working wherever you wish. I don't even notice it any more.
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If you set the compatibility mode, as in the answer to your other question, it shouldn't occur. Nor does it appear to occur if you have an AutoOpen macro with the line
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Selection.HomeKey wdStory
Frankly it is not an issue worth worrying about. You can ignore it and continue working wherever you wish. I don't even notice it any more.

I disagree, users have a right to complain about unwanted features and all complaints are just as equally important. Just because this isn't annoying to you doesn't mean its not a big deal. That's the very reason why we are here today. Because some asshole product manager signed off on this stupid idea and now the rest of us have to deal with it. Careful with that kind of thinking partner.
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Cross-posted here in a separate moderated question and on SuperUser at Can the "welcome back pick up where you left off" annoying pop up be DISABLED in word? - Super User.
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Cross-posted here in a separate moderated question and on SuperUser at Can the "welcome back pick up where you left off" annoying pop up be DISABLED in word? - Super User.
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Do you have instructions for the macro? I am too dumb to do scripting and couldn't find anything written in plain English online.
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Do you have instructions for the macro? I am too dumb to do scripting and couldn't find anything written in plain English online.

[EDIT: This macro does not work to stop the return to previous editing point. See apology post which follows.]

Create the following macro in your Normal.dotm template. This is the default location for recorded macros.

Code:
Sub AutoOpen()
     ' Graham Mayor
    ' https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/44046-disable-welcome-back-message.html#post175280
    '
    ' Disables Welcome back message and pick up where you left off
    ' Starts document at beginning of document when opened
    '
     Selection.HomeKey wdStory
End Sub
Instructions for Installing Macros from Forums or Websites by Graham Mayor, MVP

If you already have an AutoOpen macro, add the following line to that macro before End Sub:
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     Selection.HomeKey wdStory
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I apologize. I just tested the macro to be sure. I was wrong.
Graham's solution does not work in the current version of Word (2021 / 365) and may not work in Word 2016.

An AutoOpen macro apparently runs before the Pick Up Where You Left Off is implemented. So it does take you to the beginning of the document but then you get bumped to the last editing point.

Ctrl+Home remains a workaround.
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Note, this is not the place to get any changes made in Word nor the attention of developers at Microsoft. This is an independent user-to-user support forum. MS does not see anything you post here. The same is true of any online forum including those on Microsoft's site. The way to get their attention is through the feedback mechanisms.
My personal preference is to use the Word Feedback Portal. If you do, please get a share link and post it here so that others seeing this thread can go there and vote and comment. While you are there, check for other posts and feel free to vote and comment on those as well!
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So what are the steps for a dummy again? I don't know what macros are, many of just use Microsoft Office products for business use and are not savy enough for to figure out the missing steps that you are referring to. Perhaps a step by step guide can be created with screenshots to inform others how to disable this feature. I use Office 2016, and don't like the newer versions, so I doubt giving feedback for older software will lead to any kind of fix. Which means we the users have to take matters into our own hands.
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Looks like I fixed the issue but I am not exactly sure what steps I did after following the general advice of this article


For me the checkbox to "replace all child object permission entries..." was already marked, but I did something until the permissions window looks like the attachment and after a restart, no more nag. Now off to figure out how to disable the stupid "insert text here" crap that appears on slides in powerpoint
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