Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting.
Some users could work around the problem with Paste Special, but others had to wait for Microsoft to act.
A bug that caused Windows Security to incorrectly report that Microsoft Defender Antivirus was disabled was resolved in a Defender update released on September 17.
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Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting.
Microsoft has issued a partial fix for the Excel bug that causes paste operations to fail.
Earlier in September, Microsoft released a security update for Excel to address remote code execution and information disclosure vulnerabilities.
Some users could work around the problem with Paste Special, but others had to wait for Microsoft to act.
A fix has now arrived and it continues to hover nervously in the doorway.
September has not been kind to Microsoft, its updates, or the emergency updates needed to repair them.
A bug that caused Windows Security to incorrectly report that Microsoft Defender Antivirus was disabled was resolved in a Defender update released on September 17.
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