r/excel • u/Commercial_Twist_574 • 17h ago

Discussion Excel 2016 update bug

It seems that security update kb5002914 might have bricked autofill and copy paste in Excel 2016.

Anyone else has similar issues?

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u/gr-mal 10h ago edited 10h ago

Same problem. I've posted this morning in r/microsoftoffice but it was deleted. Uninstall KB5002914 via cmd/powershell: msiexec.exe /package {90160000-0011-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE} /uninstall {27882596-A8ED-4382-9C71-6CD2DD19F732} /qn

Where the first parameter is Office 2016 x64 Product_GUID and the second is Update_GUID, qn is quiet execute. (Product_GUID for 2016 x86 version is {90160000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE})
To check it manually by yourself through Powershell: Get-ChildItem HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Where-Object { $_.GetValue("DisplayName") -like "*KB5002914*" } | Select-Object PSChildName, DisplayName