If there are no tracked changes or comments in your document, then Final
view would look the same as Final Showing Markup view. Word 2002 and
later open in Final Showing Markup view to let you know that your
document contains tracked changes and/or comments, and to save you
possible grief from inadvertently sending the document out that way.
From the wording of your question, Word's default setting to open
documents in Final Showing Markup view seems to be what you want.