Disable Office Teaching Callouts

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Disable Office Teaching Callouts

Pavel yannara Mirochnitchenko 13,336 MVP

As here in previous thread, people are trying to get rid of these blue boxes which are called Teaching Callouts.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/186354/outlook-remove-blue-tip-boxes.html

Is it really so, that even today this cannot be configured automatically?

Pavel yannara Mirochnitchenko 13,336 Reputation points MVP

2021-08-18T06:33:06.027+00:00

Yea, this is the Microsoft today. New features are released each month but controlling mechanizms are lacking behing... a lot.

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Pavel yannara Mirochnitchenko 13,336 Reputation points MVP

2021-08-18T06:33:06.027+00:00

Yea, this is the Microsoft today. New features are released each month but controlling mechanizms are lacking behing... a lot.

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@Pavel yannara Mirochnitchenko

Based on my research, currently we are unable to disable these teaching callouts directly, I do not find any settings in Microsoft 365 admin center, or any related registry keys to disable it directly.
It's recommended to submit this requirements to Microsoft via going to any Microsoft 365 app > Help tab > Feedback.

Once Microsoft 365 apps get new features update, the teaching callouts would appear, and there would be a corresponding key value generated under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\TeachingCallouts.

In theory, you could have a test machine installed Microsoft 365 apps with Current Channel, if the teaching callouts pops up, then check the TeachingCallouts key under the registry path above, then import the values to machines installed Microsoft 365 apps with other update channels, such as Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel that has low frequency of acquiring new features, and set the value data as 2.
Then teaching callouts would not appear on these machines.

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Brian Bergin 41 Reputation points

2025-07-03T21:08:44.3633333+00:00

The problem is M$ assumes everyone is a newbie who just bought their first computer at a big box store. I've been using Windows since 1.0 and Office since 2.0 (as an aside, I have Windows 1.0 running in a VM, it's a fun piece of nostalgia to show clients and friends). I doubt there's a single "teaching callout" that would help me do my job yet every time I get a new computer they're forced on me. To make matters worse Office does NOT save settings in the cloud like it claims, despite being an Office 365 E3 user. Not a single setting under File, Options migrated from my old PC to my new one. Formatting, the lame auto-predict text, copy/paste selection, nothing. It's never worked and as a 365 Partner I don't see it work on clients' PCs either.

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Here is a registry entry to disable all the teaching callouts that I've experienced so far. It's probably not comprehensive, because another annoying popup interfered with my work again today.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\TeachingCallouts]

"SLRToggleReplaceTeachingCalloutID"=dword:00000002

"UseTighterSpacingTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"Olk_SearchBoxTitleBar_SLR_Sequence"=dword:00000002

"PPT_RecordVideoPresentation_Callout"=dword:00000002

"RibbonOverflowTeachingCalloutID"=dword:00000002

"AutoSaveToggleOnPPT"=dword:00000002

"CloudSettingsSyncTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"EnhancedLocationWellTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"AutoSaveToggleOnWord"=dword:00000002

"AccCheckerStatusBarTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"AutoAltText1"=dword:00000002

"PPT_GraphImportReuseSlides_Callout"=dword:00000002

"AutoSaveFirstSavePPT"=dword:00000002

"PPT_RecordTab_Callout_Sequence"=dword:00000002

"TabbedPanesTeachingUI"=dword:00000002

"AutoSaveFirstSaveExcel"=dword:00000002

"AutoSaveToggleOnExcel"=dword:00000002

"PPT_Editor_Intro_Callout"=dword:00000002

"PPT_OnInsert_Section"=dword:00000002

"Word_CanvasContextual_v3"=dword:00000002

"MeetingAllowForwardTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"OneNoteModernLayoutHorizontalSequence"=dword:00000002

"CreateLiveComponentTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"MessageExtensionsTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"PPT_InsertCameo_Callout"=dword:00000002

"LiveSubtitlesPodiumViewTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"OneNoteSingleLineRibbon"=dword:00000002

"AutocreateTeachingCallout_MoreLocations"=dword:00000002

"VersionHistoryRenameCalloutPPT"=dword:00000002

"a79db66d-e74d-41e8-a138-558044fae3cb"=dword:00000002

"AccCheckerPaneTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"AutoSaveFirstSaveWord"=dword:00000002

"ComingSoonTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"CreatePivotTableFromPowerBITeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"DataVisualizerRibbonTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"e78dda87-8b86-4aa2-8036-a2dcf9d8cc44"=dword:00000002

"ExportToWordProcessTabTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"FocusedInboxTeachingCallout_7"=dword:00000002

"GroupAdvancedSettingsTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"GroupUnreadCountTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"HubBarTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"LineageDiscoverabilityTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"LineageFilterTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"MeetDarkModeComposeTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"MeetDarkModeReadTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"OneNoteQuickNoteToolbarToggleButtonCallout"=dword:00000002

"PinAppTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"PowerQueryAsDefaultGetDataTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"PPT_RecordingTab_Callout_Sequence"=dword:00000002

"PPT_Rehearse_Callout"=dword:00000002

"PPT_Rehearse_Callout_Last_Shown"=dword:00000002

"PreviewPlaceUpdate"=dword:00000002

"RoamingSigTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"Search.TopResults"=dword:00000002

"SearchIncludeDeletedItems"=dword:00000002

"StatusBarFormulasTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"SuggestedRepliesCallout"=dword:00000002

"SyncProgressUITeachingCalloutA"=dword:00000002

"ThreadedCommentsCallout"=dword:00000002

"UseToDoAppTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"VersionHistoryRenameCalloutExcel"=dword:00000002

"VersionHistoryRenameCalloutWord"=dword:00000002

"Word_TextPredictor_InCanvas"=dword:00000002

"PowerQueryChangeDefaultTableStyleTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"AutoDismissOptionTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"DynamicArrayFirstSpillCallout"=dword:00000002

"LOR_TeachingCallout_SequenceID"=dword:00000002

"LoopComponentTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"OneNoteFullPageViewButtonCallout"=dword:00000002

"TabbedPanesTeachingUI "=dword:00000002

"Word_CanvasContextual_CurrentAuthor"=dword:00000002

"Word_CanvasContextual_EditorPane"=dword:00000002

"WordaddInX::TC::NHAnXRVklaacU3W8FxlRyE4YGiwE5ZIFbGy2nytCEbhsIYuO/Z+h6yBNoqiU7mWbod7b0gebu1SCMd3kEdNUHw=="=dword:00000002

"PPT_InsertPowerBI_Callout"=dword:00000002

"AutocreateTeachingCallout_PickMoveLocations"=dword:00000002

"CaptionDiscoverabilityEnterShowPopoverTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"AccessibleColorsCategoryTeachingCalloutV2"=dword:00000002

"SyncProgressUITeachingCalloutB"=dword:00000002

"OneNoteDisableTextPrediction"=dword:00000002

"addInX::TC::3b8c36a1-9a1a-4699-8432-de3b6c26e7a51714051294"=dword:00000002

"NavigationPaneTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

"OneNoteLaserPointer"=dword:00000002

"OneNoteDrawAndHoldCallout"=dword:00000002

"Word_ModernComments_ShowRevisionsInline"=dword:00000002

"LineageContextMenuDiscoverabilityTeachingCallout"=dword:00000002

Answer 3

Dave 10

Absolutely disgusting M$FT polluted their apps and our time with this garbage and no way to globally turn them off and we have to regedit them!!!! Like whack-a-mole!

Answer 4

Staberock, Maik 0

The problem is, those teaching callouts are not only an Office annoyance. Just saw one of them in the Windows Image Viewer (if that's the correct english name for Windows Fotoanzeige).

Means, there we would need something system wide.

Decoene, Edwin 5 Reputation points

2025-02-10T11:09:46.5333333+00:00

FYI, this link holds the most complete set of values to set in regedit: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/186354/outlook-remove-blue-tip-boxes

HTH...

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