A limited set of users with Excel 2016 and other standalone Excel purchases have been struggling to paste.

Microsoft Excel users report that this week's KB5002914 Office security update is breaking copy-and-paste operations and formula dragging, with affected users saying that removing or rolling back the ...

Microsoft has fixed Excel copy-and-paste failures caused by September 2026 updates across Office 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2024.

Microsoft released Windows security updates for Windows 11 as well as 10 this week via Patch Tuesday. It also rolled out ...

Microsoft also fixed an issue with USB Audio Class 1.0 devices. Some users found that no sound was coming from their audio devices after the Patch Tuesday update, and volume controls were unresponsive ...

There is not long left for Office 2016 in terms of official support from Microsoft, but it felt like adding salt to the wound when a recent update caused Word, Excel and Outlook to stop working.

Microsoft has confirmed that copy and paste may silently fail for some Excel users after installing the 2026 KB5002914 security update.