Excel Copy and Paste Bug

[crowsj]

Microsoft has confirmed the latest Office patch breaks copy and pasting in Excel. The only solution for now is to roll back to the previous version of Office.

From what I’ve read online, the OfficeC2RClient.exe you would use to roll back Office only works if run as the user, not system. I’ve tried creating a task and have the command run as user and the exit code ends up as “1” and the app inventory shows it still has the latest Office installed. (The user who’s having the most issues is offsite so I can’t easily check any log files.)

The solution is to run:

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.20326.20132

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[shabircse]

@crowsj

e exit code ends up as “1” and the app inventory shows it still has the latest Office installed. (The user who’s having the most issues is offsite so I can’t easily check any log files.)

The solution is to run:

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.20326.20132

Any ideas?

Thanks!

override wait
completiontype=synchronous
runas=currentuser
wait "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.20326.20132 displaylevel=true

you can try to override the wait command and this should run in the user context...

For more details refer reading this great post.

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