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Share How you Use Office PopUp - How can I turn this off?
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Anonymous
Office 365 for MAC - Version 16.13, 180513
Every time I open Excel or Word, a pop up appears asking me if I want to
SHARE HOW YOU USE OFFICE
No I do not want to share. I do not want to see this pop up every time I open Word and every time I open Excel.
How can I stop this pop up from appearing?
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Anonymous
2018-05-19T20:57:25+00:00 -
Jim G 134.1K Reputation points MVP2018-05-19T20:49:01+00:00 Hi
I don't see this message, and there haven't been other reports of it.
There is a setting in Word Preferences for this option in the Privacy settings.
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Jim G 134.1K Reputation points MVP
2018-05-19T20:47:25+00:00 Duplicate questions were merged together. - Moderator
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Anonymous
2018-05-17T19:12:23+00:00 Hi,
unable to see the screenshot.
Kind Regards:
Yasir
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Anonymous
2018-05-17T16:33:49+00:00 Office 365 for Mac - updated to version 16.13
Every time I open Word or Excel, system asks me if I want to share data. There is no option to say no. (see below)
Note that whenever I update my MacOS, if there is a question about whether I want to share data, I can say no. When I say NO then I never see that message again.
WIth Office 365, I now get a pop-up every time I open Word or Excel. There is no option to say no I do not want to share data.
I checked my privacy and security settings in preferences for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. I was amazed and horrified to find that there are only two options - Full diagnostic data or basic diagnostic data. There is no option to say no. Full diagnostic was checked, I changed this to basic. The popups still appear every time I open Word or Excel.
Here are my questions.
- How can I stop the pop up from appearing?
- How can I preserve my privacy and stop data from being sent at all - in other words, where is the NO option (Apple provides a NO option for my Mac and also for my iOS devices).
Screenshot below.