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Office 365, Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. Please don't tell me that when I unbox my new laptop, Windows 10 will do this too. Sheesh.

Sometime I feel like someone left this OS in debug mode because it seems like it is generating quite a few error messages that are not really errors.

This is Microsoft's stock-in-trade. The only errors in my event viewer are not really errors. I've learned to ignore this "feature," mostly, but sometimes I fall prey to mild paranoia that has me off and searching for a solution...a solution that does not exist, because there is no real problem except bad coding.

Do you have an Office 365 subscription?  I have suspected that this error message is being thrown because Office 365 subscriptions are licensed in a different way that a stand alone copy of MS Office.  This is just another example of Windows 10 code generating an error message in the event viewer that it should not and it does not have any impact on the use of the software.  Sometime I feel like someone left this OS in debug mode because it seems like it is generating quite a few error messages that are not really errors.

Like the others on this thread, I too like to keep my Error Log clean and am having this problem on multiple computers.  I've read ...all the way to the end -- and no solution.  This occurs too often, Microsoft.  As one of the OP's said, it's usually crickets from MS beyond a pathetic "reinstall, restart, or ignore-it" response to the OP's question.

The failure of a Technical Support person to follow up further on a topic, or the inability to flag these posts for follow-up, is a failure in this process.  Similarly is the inability to mark a topic as Answered/Solved/Closed so people don't waste their time reading these topics.

P.S. to Microsoft staff: I'm also tired of useless, uninformed instructions from "Support Engineers." If you don't have a real solution, say so. Don't further waste our time with blanket, vanilla "troubleshooting" that does absolutely nothing to fix what's broken. Stop it now.

This is one of my pet peeves here. Right up there with people marking one of these useless posts as "the solution" to the problem. There is no way to downvote/cancel a post that is marked that way. So it makes it even harder for people to get a real solution because MS drones just point to the "Solution" and repeat the useless mantra.

If I had a nickel for every bug that Microsoft has introduced into my event viewer, I could retire.

Yes, we should ignore it, but that's after everyone has wasted a lot of time and effort chasing it down. Not our job, and I'm a little tired of dealing with issues like it.

P.S. to Microsoft staff: I'm also tired of useless, uninformed instructions from "Support Engineers." If you don't have a real solution, say so. Don't further waste our time with blanket, vanilla "troubleshooting" that does absolutely nothing to fix what's broken. Stop it now.

Well Rhonda,

That should rattle their pillow :( Imagine even insiders aren't considered if a bug isn't major issue. What's the purpose of having a viewer if everyone says ignore it. That's a major flaw. It's like having an oil gauge and it's showing low pressure and you ignore it. What happens then?

These types of errors should be fixed documented, and made available through the KB. I already wrote a KB article for an issue with Outlook (Been a while).