Hi Jeremy, But that gets rid of the welcome message by turning off reading layout, which I think Chris wants to retain. This would have to be some sort of first-run setting buried somewhere in the office configuration. That means it's not covered by group policy and if Chris is conserving HKCU\Sofware\Microsoft\Office\11.0 or 12.0 on logoff and it's not sticking then it's somewhere else. regards, Rick -- Ulrich Mack Quest Software Provision Networks Division On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Jeremy Saunders < Jeremy.Saunders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > > > It’s actually a weird registry DWORD value called > fAllowAutoReadingMode_1886_1 found in the word12 adm template. It’s set in > the “policy” key. But you are right, couldn’t track it using regmon and > toggling it off and on in the Word Options…Do a google seach for that exact > value, and you’ll get some good posts. > > > > Cheers, > > Jeremy. > > > >