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OFFICE 2016 OUTLOOK COMPATIBILITY MODE HOW TO
OFFICE 2016 OUTLOOK COMPATIBILITY MODE WINDOWS 10
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Once the wizard has been run, however, there isn’t an easy way to remove or even determine whether an executable has been assigned to run in compatibility mode. It is, however still possible to “turn on” compatibility mode for those same executables using the compatibility wizard.

OFFICE 2016 OUTLOOK COMPATIBILITY MODE WINDOWS 10

Windows 10 does not display a Compatibility tab on shortcuts to or executable files themselves which are signed by Microsoft and known to be compatible with that operating system. The reason the Microsoft tech article is confusing is due to the instructions which haven’t been updated in a while. In the example above C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE is the only MS Office executable, so I’ve deleted that item.

Select any executable part of Microsoft Office and delete those related entries.

Navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers.

Close the affected application (Outlook in this case).

In my example, the user was recently migrated to Windows 10 and after running into an issue with Microsoft Outlook ran the compatibility wizard, selected Outlook and then selected a different operating system than the current operating system. This error can occur if a user has previously run the program compatibility wizard for a program part of the Microsoft Office package and set the option to run that program in compatibility mode going forward. You should repair the Office program by using Control Panel.”

OFFICE 2016 OUTLOOK COMPATIBILITY MODE LICENSE

The user opens Microsoft Outlook 2013 or 2016 on Windows 7 or Windows 10 and the program opens but immediately displays the following error: “Microsoft Office cannot verify the license for this product.

OFFICE 2016 OUTLOOK COMPATIBILITY MODE HOW TO

To resolve licensing/product key issues with Office 365, please see Microsoft’s article on how to reset Office 365 activation. It does not work for any Microsoft Office 365 installations.

This issue and resolution applies specifically to Microsoft Office 20 on Windows 7 and Windows 10. I spent some time analyzing this issue and here’s what I’ve found. Unfortunately the support article describing the resolution to the issue isn’t very clear.

Apparently this is a known issue with Microsoft Office 20.