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'Welcome back!' Pop-Up, How to Remove It?

Anonymous
2016-10-22T12:58:13+00:00

How do you remove/completely disable the 'Welcome back!' pop-up that appears every time you open a Word document?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-10-23T11:00:14+00:00

    Hi Keven,

    Let's try to turn off or disable the application auto-resume option on your Mac. To do this, deselect Reopen Windows When Logging Back In in the confirmation dialog box when you log-out or shut down your computer.

    Update us on how it goes so we can further assist you.

    Regards.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-02-19T20:58:38+00:00

    This does not address the problem. Keven did not ask how to avoid reopening a document, but how to avoid the infuriating 'Bob'- or 'Clippy'-like message anthropomorphising Office software. Who or what is supposedly saying 'Welcome back!' to the user? It is a mindless piece of code, which should simply display a marker like 'Last edit location', and it should be possible to turn even that message off.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-03-31T02:35:36+00:00

    Yes, thank you! That "Welcome Back!" is the worst idea Microsoft has ever had. Most Word users are not 4 years old, so please don't treat us as if we are

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  3. Stefan Blom 338.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-10-23T11:45:20+00:00

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  4. Stefan Blom 338.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-02-19T23:26:12+00:00

    You can post feedback in the Word for Mac section in the Uservoice forum at https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304942-word-for-mac.

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