How do I disable "Microsoft Word Security Notice" pop-up

Anonymous
2021-07-07T17:12:32+00:00

I am extremely frustrated, to the point that I want to just switch over to Apple products the way everyone tells me to.

For no reason - (at least nothing I did), Microsoft appears to have installed some type of software on my computer that whenever I copy and paste into a MS Word document, I get an annoying pop-up:

Microsoft Word Security Notice

Microsoft Office has identified a potential security concern.

This document contains fields that can share data with external files and websites. It is important that this file is from a trustworthy source.

Choosing Yes will enable updating all fields in this file until you close it.

And I say --- duh! This is what I was trying to do. But why do I have to be annoyed each and every time I do anything with MS Word products??? Oh.. I'm using Windows 10 Professional and a Microsoft 365 account through my school

How can I fix it? Or should I just throw this Dell Latitude Laptop out the window and start over with an iBook?

Arrrrrgh.

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Jay Freedman 208.2K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2021-07-08T15:04:48+00:00

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a security feature which was enabled after the last update. Is there a way to disable this warning when doing mail merges?

It is a bug in the last update, and it is what Microsoft's team is working to resolve. When the fix is released, the security notice should not pop up when it isn't appropriate, i.e., during a merge or after pasting a benign object from another location. Until that fix arrives, though, the rollback that you did is the only way to avoid the notices.

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Anonymous
2021-07-16T06:16:21+00:00

I just updated my MS Office and this problem has been solved.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-10-14T11:04:15+00:00

    Mark welcome to the group, sorry you too have the same problem.

    By way of an update for all. Currently Office 365 Version 2103 (Build 13901.20336) avoids the problem, for me.

    And, on my second machine which I updated yesterday to the latest Windows and latest Office 365 the problem is still there.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-10-14T10:28:38+00:00

    Started getting this pop up for us too.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-10-05T02:00:56+00:00

    timlang,

    Welcome to the thread. We're all in the same boat with the same error problem. Sorry to hear you've been dealing with it since July. It started for me in September. Although I had a bout with it 6 months before that. And Microsoft fixed it that time. But, it's back again for all of us here.

    Currently Office 365 Version 2103 (Build 13901.20336) avoids the problem, IF you can roll back to that version?

    I have two machines. One working with the rolled back version, and another that is completely updated that has the problem. I've promised those following this thread that I would report when it's resolved.

    Microsoft is aware of the problem. But there is no way of knowing when \ if it will be fixed.

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