Using New Outlook on Windows for professional communication and productivity
+1 Same odd issue/behaviour.
My outlook was encountering some odd issues over the past week or two. Performed the repair process, would fix, then only to repeat and have no ability to open the program. Second step, online repair, this worked, seemed to fix things, however, essentially reset Outlook, including the registration and Office Key. Had to hunt around for a number of days to locate the key and re register. (Not happy Microsoft - especially as it IS a legit version of Office and Key "PAID" from MS direct).While the app's appear to be in working order now, I have lost a number of the recent links to docs (recent docs) within the open screen on Word/Excel etc.Outlook carries this very odd '<0w>' within the search bar also as mentioned by others.
Sounds like an issue with the recent updates pushed out my MS. (Typical).
OS - Win 10 Pro 64
Build - 19045.4170
Ver - 22H2
Office - Microsoft® Outlook® 2016 MSO (Version 2403 Build 16.0.17425.20124) 64-bit