Grant Access issue with Microsoft Word and Excel

Unfortunately, no. I just know that these issues started for me with the latest update to Mohave (10.14.6) and Office 365 (16.33). I updated them both on the same day. For the time being, I've just been using the web versions of Office 365 (which I dislike) instead of opening files with the actual apps on my iMac. Seems like a lot of people are having this same issue. I feel like I've tried every suggestion out there so far. I will definitely update this post if and when I ever do figure it out. Good luck! And please share here if you figure it out first! :-)

Has anyone figured out a solution to this? Besides the 'grant access' issue with Word and Excel, I recently discovered a problem with Outlook. I've been able to send emails without attachments, but if I try to send one with an attachment, I get the following error message:

"Outlook can’t send or save this message with the attached file.

If you remove the attachment, you will be able to save the draft message. Then, you can restart Outlook and attach the file to the message again."

Well, saving a draft, restarting Outlook, and reattaching the file does NOT work. I get the same error again.

From all my research so far, the majority of people think it has to do with having a third-party font manager (in my case, Suitcase Fusion) and/or Apple's Sandbox. Like I mentioned in my original post, I didn't start having these issues until I updated Mohave to 10.14.6 and Office 365 to version 16.33. I feel like I've tried every suggestion out there, but nothing is working. Surely, I'm not the only person dealing with this problem. For the time being, I've been having to open up Excel documents in the Numbers app, Word documents in the TextEdit app, and using my work email through the web version of Outlook. Please somebody help! :-(

Unfortunately, I don't think the anti-virus software is the issue. I did try uninstalling the anti-virus software, but was still getting the same Grant Access issue message. I did just update Office 365 the other day to 16.34, hoping that maybe the issue would be resolved, but sadly no.

I uninstalled Sophos but I still got the same alerts, so I don't believe that's the issue.

This didn't solve the issue.

The original thread is mine. The Outlook issue is related to the original. The whole Office 365 suite is not playing nice with the latest update to Mohave.