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
    2022-06-29T17:45:16+00:00

    Scott,

    I'm pleased it has worked for you.

    The problem now is that now that you are satisfied, we may never know if Microsoft eventually "fix" this issue, because you won't be posting here to constantly remind them of their promise!

    :-)

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-06-29T17:28:45+00:00

    Neil,

    THANK YOU. Yes, that's what mine looked like. But the file did not run. However, I used your information

    <<

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Security]

    "DisableWarningOnIncludeFieldsUpdate"=dword:00000001

    >>

    And the details on REGEDIT here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/troubleshoot/administration/enable-disable-hyperlink-warning

    Replacing their information with yours, as they were putting it in a different place, that did not work, and yours worked!

    Thank you again. Wish I had done this MONTHS ago!!! [Smile]

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-06-29T17:21:31+00:00

    Scott,

    Have you included the --start of text--, --end of text-- lines? These were only intended to show the start and end of the file contents, not be part of the file itself.

    The edited file should look like this in Notepad:

    Is that how yours looks?

    Kind regards

    Neil

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