Why does the "Restart Office to apply privacy settings" not go away

Anonymous
2024-06-23T00:51:04+00:00

Why does the "Restart Office to apply privacy settings" not go away even after i have closed all office products, restarted them i have even restarted PC and still every time i open an office priduct i have this same issue?

Restarted multiple times in different applications, rebooted PC still same error

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-31T02:59:49+00:00

    What worked for me was to sign out of all accounts except mine. I didn't realise that I was signed in with 3 different accounts (we share email accounts on multiple computers.

    I went to each app. Clicked file-> Office account-> Switch account (Chose any account not mine) and signed out. I had to close 3 accounts before this worked.

    Repeated on other office apps.

    Problem solved!!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-24T04:54:21+00:00

    Not for me. Just tried this one, no luck. Going to try on a couple of other machines.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-24T04:45:14+00:00

    This issue was fixed months ago

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-24T04:14:21+00:00

    "restart office to apply changes to your privacy settings" this is the - Microsoft Community - not sure if anyone posted this yet. Not tried it yet. I will when I have a chance to live without Office, as often when I run recommendations from support it breaks everything. Being careful on this one.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-21T13:04:47+00:00

    Wish I could recall. I removed and reinstalled the Office-MS 365 applications many times. I suspect that along the way I reset Windows and that did the trick. This is something I end up doing once or twice a year. A fresh start is too often the only way to fix bugs beyond Microsoft’s abilities.

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