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

"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.

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.

How do you got it fixed?

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.

Saints be praised!!