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• New merged table bug appears, this time with September’s Word patch KB 4011039

  Posted on September 8, 2017 at 15:13 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  There’s a report on the Technet site that describes a bug displaying text in merged cells, after this month’s Word 2016 KB 4011039 is applied.

  It looks a whole lot like the bug in last month’s KB 3213656, which was also a Word non-security patch. I talked about it in Computerworld a couple of weeks ago.

  Microsoft hasn’t acknowledged the bug in either KB article.

  As best I can tell, the bug also doesn’t appear on the master Office bug list. Looks like it’s skated completely under the radar.

  Only solution I’ve seen is to uninstall the buggy patch.

  Office Patches/Security KB 3213656, KB 4011039

• Phantom Office 2016 updates including KB 3213656 and KB 3085435

  Posted on September 4, 2017 at 08:48 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Just got a message from @JohnnyT1978:

  I wonder if you or any fellow AskWoody followers can shed light on the following Office 2016 updates?

  • KB3085403 – chart2016-kb3085403-fullfile-x86-glb.exe – August 8, 2017, update for Office 2016 (KB3085403)
  • KB3085435 – excel2016-kb3085435-fullfile-x86-glb.exe – August 8, 2017, update for Excel 2016 (KB3085435)
  • KB3085425 – oart2016-kb3085425-fullfile-x86-glb.exe – August 8, 2017, update for Office 2016 (KB3085425)
  • KB3213656 – word2016-kb3213656-fullfile-x86-glb.exe – August 8, 2017, update for Word 2016 (KB3213656)

  They are listed on the ‘August 2017, updates for Microsoft Office’ web page (https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4036121/august-2017-updates-for-microsoft-office) but have not appeared in WSUS and there is no record of them in the Microsoft Update Catalog, which means there is no information on which updates they supersede (if any)?

  Office Patches/Security KB 3085403, KB 3085425, KB 3085435, KB 3213656

• Word and Outlook table bug found in this month’s Word 2016 patch KB 3213656

  Posted on August 25, 2017 at 06:19 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Merged cells don’t work correctly after applying the patch. The only fix found so far is to uninstall KB 3213656.

  Let’s hear it for Automatic Update.

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Office Patches/Security KB 3213656