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
    2022-05-31T18:51:09+00:00

    Karl,

    Welcome to the unhappy useless message club. You may not be using mailmerge but sadly your process is interrupted the same way as the rest of us. I have two machines. One with a previous version of WORD and current version of Windows 10, that let's me keep working, and another machine with the latest WORD that continues to have the same problem you describe.

    There are several threads here on the same topic, some with promises to fix it, but it's close to 1 year now and many updates later, and still no fixed.

    Some have work around solutions that include messing with the Registry. But you take a big risk if you don't know what you're doing. And future update can make such a fix null.

    Hopefully, someone at Microsoft will take notice of this thread and fix it (soon).

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-31T19:24:15+00:00

    Scott,

    I admire your optimism! Maybe if we write it in red with 36pt letters. ;-)

    In the meantime, I have to tell our customers that "It's just Microsoft being Microsoft!" and there's nothing we can do about it. We want to promote Microsoft products, not denigrate; it's good for us and good for them.

    I am an uncomfortable apologist. SMH.

    I will keep checking though.

    Regards,

    karl

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-05-31T21:07:51+00:00

    I do not share Scott's and Karl's fears about "messing with the registry".

    The principle purpose of the registry is to provide an elaborate set of system settings to control the behaviour of your programmes.

    If you want to change the behaviour of Word to prevent it from rejecting your VBA macros, then you can do it via the registry. if Microsoft ever produce (another) fix for this problem, it will be via a registry. They may provide a check box in the Options dialog within Word, but all that will do is control a setting in the registry. It is the registry setting which will actually control the behaviour of Word. That's how most of the settings in the Options dialog box work - they are just settings from the registry exposed through the user interface.

    The fix that I have suggested is not some weird trick, dreamt up by some spotty teenage hacker in his bedroom one night. It has been put their by the Microsoft engineers who design Word as a legitimate means of controlling the behaviour of their programme.

    Yes I know the registry is scary if you are not an experienced developer. But I have provided step-by-step instructions and an explanation of how it works. If you follow those instructions, you can do no harm and the worse that will happen is that it won't fix your particular problem.

    So you have a choice. Try it out. Or carry on waiting for another "fix" from Microsoft.

    Kind regards

    Neil Sargent

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