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Why is this popping out in my word file? I am using office 365 subscription.
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I found a solution - in settings, Office tab - uncheck the box Use Office 2016 to sync Office files that I open -worked for me.
Same issue here, I was worried it might be a virus.
I hope MS fixes it soon since it's very annoying,
Thanks,
Marco
Just went to 1708 (on the slow ring); the problem STILL hasn't been fixed. C'mon, MS -- please give this some attention -- or at least tell us what's going on.
UPDATE again: Tony, it failed this morning. It seems to be a bit more intermittent than before. I do know that I double-clicked in the filename in Windows Explorer vs. opening directly in Word.
Hmm. Failed again yesterday: I'd downloaded a docx using Chrome, opened it from the download bar and got the message when closing but when I went to the download folder and opened it there, did not get the message on closing. Looks like they've only partially fixed the issue.
Update: just opened a doc from File Manager on another machine & got the error, opened a second one: no error, opened the first again: no error. Weird.