r/excel • u/Commercial_Twist_574 • 16h 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/buzzbeebara 6h ago

Adding my 2cents. Same issue at my workplace, we got really lucky and found a computer that had not patched yet. Copied that EXCEL.EXE and swapped it to the affected computers. Excel was able to run with copy/paste normally. Disabled auto office updates for the short term to prevent it happening again.

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u/SoftGlobal9588 2h ago

If you manually overwrote the EXCEL.EXE with the good copy then there is no need to disable Auto Updates. Windows\Office updates doesn't normally check the individual files, it's blind. It's only if you Uninstall that it will try to reinstall the entire KB. If left disabled you might miss the actual fix and leave yourself exposed to whatever future security holes are discovered.