Stop dialog popup "Microsoft respects your privacy"

Anonymous
2023-08-14T23:02:28+00:00

I'm on a Windows 11 PC

Every time I start outlook, word, excel, etc the below dialogs appear. Once I have clicked through all the options the toolbar has this notification under it;

For a start "Restart Office" is not very clear, because there is no office app. So I assume it means close and restart all running office applications. Which I did but the dialogs continue to appear each time I start one of the apps.

I have since tried;

  1. Restarting PC
  2. Office Repair
  3. Office Repair online (it uninstalled office and then couldn't go any further so I had to download and reinstall office)
  4. Reinstall of office

Does anyone know how to fix this so it no longer appears at the start of office 365 apps

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-09-07T11:05:20+00:00

    I also have this same problem but it is not too big for the screen. It is a small box with a close button but nothing to accept and close. It keeps coming back

    Update, i found that Office was signed in on an old account so i closed that and signed in on the correct account and the pop ups stopped. However, I came in this morning and somehow it had reverted to the other account and the same problem occurred. Signing out fixed it again, but it is going to be a pain to have to do that everyday!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-08-24T16:35:00+00:00

    I am having the same issue. It doesn't matter HOW MANY times I go through and hit accept. It keeps popping up EVERY SINGLE TIME I open a Word document for the first time

    HOW do I get rid of this for good! NO MEANS NO and I am TIRED of telling it so!

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-08-24T10:09:16+00:00

    I didn't find it Microsoft did. When you go to File> account or something and saw the strange account signed in and logged it out

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-08-24T09:29:21+00:00

    Thanks very much for this. How did you find the old account? I have only one that is active and connected to my Outlook app.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-08-24T08:02:33+00:00

    I had this problem and thanks to this thread discovered that somehow Microsoft had found an old Hotmail account I haven't used for years, as well as my current Outlook account, so signed out of Hotmail and hey presto, problem solved. All very strange though.

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