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
    2023-09-24T21:36:37+00:00

    Two "good" fixes. First, if you can see the prompt when you are asked for privacy selection, make sure you can see the entire screen. If you cannot, change your resolution temporarily so you can. If that doesn't fix the problem, make sure you sign out of any/all of your Microsoft accounts. Sign in to each account one at a time and complete the privacy prompts. If you have any Microsoft app open on any other device, you need to close all before you can start to clear one account, then another. Check all your devices - phone, iPad, etc. to make sure you are signed out of any Microsoft account on all of the devices. Then when you open one, you can click through the prompts. Also, depending on your sync settings, you might have to do the same process on all of your devices.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-09-24T18:02:41+00:00

    There seem to be a lot of should-be-useful suggestions in this thread, and a lot of supportive assistance.

    But nobody seems to be questioning why so many people are all chasing our tails (here and many, many other threads) when the problem should be being fixed at source.

    Another sloppy piece of MS programming left steaming in the middle of the road.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-24T17:30:51+00:00

    I removed the app and reinstalled it still didn't get rid of it. In the process of removing the app and restarting it closed any other programs

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-09-24T17:14:07+00:00

    I appreciate your response. Thanks so much, but no that's not the fix. I noticed after I sent you the email that I had three accounts open, so I closed 2, of them and it worked.

    So going forward in your responses you may want to add that to it thus in my case of having more than one account open I was having the issue

    Still, I appreciate your quick response. Best regards!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-23T21:08:06+00:00

    Temporarily change your screen resolution to a small font. You should be able to see after you change the resolution.

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