Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly
The hotfix applies only to Excel 2016, and Microsoft warns that pasting may still fail in workbooks containing conditional formatting.Earlier in September, Microsoft released a security update for Excel to address remote code execution and information disclosure vulnerabilities. It later acknowledged that the update had introduced another problem: "In Microsoft Excel 2024, 2021, 2019, and 2016, the paste operation might fail silently."Although users try to paste content, the source remains selected and the destination is unmodified. When this issue occurs, users receive no indication of the failure, such as a beep or error message." REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Some users could work around the problem with Paste Special, but others had to wait for Microsoft to act.
- ▪The hotfix applies only to Excel 2016, and Microsoft warns that pasting may still fail in workbooks containing conditional formatting.Earlier in September, Microsoft released a security update for Excel to address remote code execution and
- ▪It later acknowledged that the update had introduced another problem: "In Microsoft Excel 2024, 2021, 2019, and 2016, the paste operation might fail silently."Although users try to paste content, the source remains selected and the destinat
- ▪When this issue occurs, users receive no indication of the failure, such as a beep or error message." REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Some users could work around the proble
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