Policy

Hide the PII Removed Warning Bar

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.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Word 2016 / Word Options / Security
Policy ID 1a2ff44dd88a
Internal name L_HidePiiRemovedWarningBar

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options\hidepiiremovedwarningbar (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options\hidepiiremovedwarningbar (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

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.

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