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

We had a brief power outtage here today. I assumed, when I restarted my PC, I would have to do the command prompt fix again. Surprise! When I opened, Word, Outlook, Excel...no "privacy settings restart" message.

Could it be that MS has fixed this...or did the unscheduled power interruption shut down fix it? Unlikely, I know :)

My office is behaving again as well!!!

Ar least on my Surface. I haven't been on my big rig today....

Finally fixed!!!

Saints be praised!!

Tracy,

A solution where the customer is asked to uninstall and reinstall the software in a blind hope that it will solve the problem is not helpful.

What will be helpful is for you to ensure MS is working on this issue.

• Has it been reproduced?
• Is there a ticket assigned for this bug?
• What is the timeframe for completion? (The problem has been with us for months and months).

I have restarted office (including closing all MS applications and including rebooting my computer) only to find the annoying "restart required: restart office to apply changes to your privacy settings" persists.

Generally, I ignore the notice, but Excel doesn't allow me to use add-ins unless I change my privacy settings. I make the changes, restart Excel, and find that my changes were not put in place, I do have the message: RESTART REQUIRED. Restart office to apply changes to your privacy settings."

It is horrible that MS apps gives a popup "Restart Required: Restart office to apply changes to your privacy settings" IMMEDIATELY after I have restarted all my MS Office apps to apply my privacy settings, eh.