Tag Archives: Word

Word/Excel 2016 crashing after April 2025 update KB5002700

Posted on 2025-04-09 by guenni

[German]Die Sicherheitsupdates vom 8. April 2025 für Microsoft Office scheinen einige Kollateralschäden zu verursachen. Neben dem Outlook 2016-Kalender-Problem scheint das Microsoft das Office-Update KB5002700 auch Word 2016 sowie Excel 2016 zum Absturz zu bringen. Advertising

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Microsoft Word 365/2021 crashes (April 7, 2025)

Posted on 2025-04-08 by guenni

[German]There is a problem with Microsoft Word 365 (and Word 2021). Since April 7, 2025, Word has been crashing in various versions when opening .doc files. The only remedy is to downgrade the relevant Office 365 / 2021 build. Advertising

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Word bug fix: Documents with # or capital letters in the name were deleted

Posted on 2024-10-11 by guenni

[German]Small addendum from October 8, 2024 – on this date, Microsoft fixed a bug in certain versions of Word that caused documents with a # in the file name or capital letters in the file name extension to be deleted … Continue reading →

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Microsoft investigates Word bug that deletes files when saving

Posted on 2024-10-05 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has confirmed a memory error in Microsoft Word that causes certain document files to be deleted unintentionally. The developers are investigating the bug. Advertising

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Microsoft Word deletes files due to file extension capitalization

Posted on 2024-10-02 by guenni

[German]Strange observation, Unpleasant observation reported by German blog readers. As of today, October 2, 2024, Microsoft Word deletes document files (.RTF, .DOCX) as soon as the file name extension is written in capital letters. Advertising

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Windows 11: Word printing issues (no graphics, blank page when PDF reader is installed)

Posted on 2024-06-21 by guenni

[German]I have received reports about printing issues in Word. One reader reports that blank pages are printed in Word when PDF readers are installed. Several readers writes that graphics in .doc files are no longer printed from Word. Advertising

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Microsoft 365: Bugs in Word 365 release 2301 – Write protection blocks changes and VBA AddIns

Posted on 2023-02-13 by guenni

[German]A German blog reader has pointed out nasty bugs in release 2301 of Microsoft Word from Office 365 or Microsoft 365. Read-only files can only be changed after saving them under a different name. And VBA addins can no longer … Continue reading →

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Word 2019: Cursor problem with Surface Studio after August 2021 update

Posted on 2021-08-22 by guenni

[German]Presumably the latest security update of August 10, 2021, causes a rather exotic problem with Microsoft's Surface Studios. A blog reader pointed out, that the mouse positioning of the text cursor correctly is no longer possible in Microsoft Word 2019 … Continue reading →

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Word 2013 Update KB4475525 (July 2, 2019) causing CRC error in WSUS and certificate error with ADR at SCCM

Posted on 2019-07-03 by guenni

[German]A brief note to administrators in corporate environments. There are issues with update KB4475525 for Word 2013 (July 2, 2019). This cannot be imported in environments with WSUS or SCCM, but causes a CRC 32 or certificate error. Advertising

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Risk: Embedded videos in Word documents?

Posted on 2018-10-31 by guenni

[German]Security experts warn of risks in Word documents. Embedded videos can be misused for attacks. The XML format of  .docx files can be misused to download dubious JavaScript code. Advertising

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