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Hide the PII Removed Warning Bar

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Registry

HKCU software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options

Value name: hidepiiremovedwarningbar

Enabled: hidepiiremovedwarningbar = 1

Disabled: hidepiiremovedwarningbar = 0

Description

This policy setting controls whether the yellow Warning Bar is displayed when opening a file in Word where personally identifiable information (PII) has been removed. If you enable this policy setting, the Warning Bar will not appear when users open a file in which PII was removed. If you disable this policy setting, the Warning Bar will appear when users open a file in which PII was removed. This is the default behavior. If you do not configure this policy setting, the Warning Bar will appear when users open a file in which PII was removed. This is the default behavior.