Office applications crash when opening files from Outlook in Protected View on Windows 10

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It's been reported that after upgrading to Windows 10, when opening Office files from Outlook emails, or OWA, the Office applications appear to launch but then throw an error before finally crashing. This only occurs when Protected View is enabled for opening files as attachments.

 ERROR Example:
 Word experienced an error trying to open the file.
                Try these suggestions.
                * Check the file permissions for the document or drive
                * Make sure there is sufficient free memory and disk space
                * Open the file with the Text Recovery converter.

Note: Various versions of this error will occur with each individual application.

RESOLUTION:

Try updating your DisplayLink driver if in use.  DisplayLink recommends v7.9 (or later) software for use with Windows 10. For this particular issue, we've found that version 7.9M4 was necessary to resolve the issue.

Reference: https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/windows

Note: We do no recommend disabling Protected View.

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