Policy overview

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ClassUser
CategoryMicrosoft Office 2016 > What's New
Supported onWindows7

This policy setting controls whether the What’s New information is shown when a user opens the desktop version of Visio for the first time after Visio has been updated with new features. By default, the What’s New information is shown. If you enable this policy setting, the What’s New information isn’t shown. Also, the What’s New button in File > Account is disabled. If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting, the What’s New information is shown. Note: There are separate policy settings for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Visio.

Internal name
L_DontShowWhatsNewInformationVisio
Policy ID
4e108a2cfd80
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\visio\dontshowwhatsnewREG_DWORD
1
0

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