May I know if the local files have the same problem? You can go to Word and save a document on the local to check if the same problem will occur.

May I know if the other Office files have the same problem? May I know if Excel files and PowerPoint files have the same problem? On the other hand, to better understand your situation and narrow down this issue, could you provide the information below? You can go to ~/Library/Containers/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User ContentsВ to check if you want to back up any customized files.) (Note: If you have any significant customizations that you back them up first. If the suggestion above doesnвЂ™t work, you can move the folder below to Desktop and it will reset all settings, weвЂ™d suggest you can navigate to this folder and move it to Desktop: ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office You can also try to remove folder : ~/Library/Containers/Microsoft Word (press command +shift +G and enter the route to go the folder) to remove the whole folder of corrupt caches of the app and check the result.

On the one hand, we have also searched a lot according to the error message you provided, you can refer to this article to check if it will help: Fix: Office 2016 Grant Access Error on MacOS. May I know if my understanding is right? If so, for the situation you encountered, we do understand the inconvenience caused and apologize for it.

From your description, it seems that you cannot open recent files from Google Drive insider Word, however, if you opened the files from Recent file under Finder, you can open them without any problem.

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