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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;
Does anyone know how to fix this so it no longer appears at the start of office 365 apps
Processes in Microsoft 365 for setting up Office apps, redeeming product keys, and activating licenses.
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That's a shame - this looked like an optimistic route to go.
Inevitable it didn't work.
So every time I fire up Word I get the stupid notice and need 3 clicks to get going.
Why don't MS concentrate on fixing the myriad bugs in Word instead of dreaming up this tripe?
Yep. Mr. Mad Marty hit it on the nail. Microsoft just wanted me to sign-in to my Microsoft account. No more privacy notices, finally! Thanks.
I had the same problem. Tried everything in the above to no avail. I went into Office and found one of my emails was corrupted with a "fix It" box below.. Clicked on it and the problem was solved.
Update on my situation:
Previous to Microsoft pushing this update that has caused the issue with the persistence of the "Microsoft respects your privacy" pop up, I was running my automations from the Windows Task Scheduler with the option "Run whether user is logged in or not". Today I have returned the automations to working by selecting "Run only when user is logged in".
My best guess as to why this is working is that my logged in user has been able to open Excel, walk through the prompts of the privacy pop up, and Excel remembers my selections. Whatever way that things run when "Run whether user is logged in or not" is checked occurs in the background, and perhaps it is running with a different user or admin/system user that doesn't know which options my primary user has selected for the privacy pop up, and thus keeps prompting for them when my code opens Excel. Even though this is in the background, I can see that the privacy pop up is active after my code errors by looking in Task Manager.
I do prefer to run my tasks as I did before, whether user is logged in or not. Does this added information help anyone understand further what I can do to satisfy the requirements of this privacy pop up so that is doesn't appear again when opening Excel across all users or privileges on my machine?
This is the first recent post I've found about this issue! I am essentially having the same problem. I was hopeful that would resolve my issue, but it hasn't.
I currently connect to Microsoft Excel via the win32com package in Python to manipulate some files with daily automated tasks. A few days ago this started failing for me because my calls are being rejected by the program (Excel). I have narrowed down the problem to the fact that the "Microsoft respects your privacy" popup is being brought up each time Excel is opened with Python, and this is preventing my automations from moving forward. No matter how many times I complete the prompts, it still happens again. This doesn't occur when I open Excel manually, only when it is open via my Python code running through a .bat file triggered by Windows Task Scheduler. Any ideas how I get get this fixed??