{"id":211117,"date":"2025-04-11T01:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/microsoft-releases-emergency-update-to-fix-office-2016-crashes"},"modified":"2025-04-11T01:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:17:49","slug":"microsoft-releases-emergency-update-to-fix-office-2016-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/microsoft-releases-emergency-update-to-fix-office-2016-crashes","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases emergency update to fix Office 2016 crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-releases-emergency-update-to-fix-office-2016-crashes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has released an out-of-band Office update to fix a known issue that caused Word, Excel, and Outlook to crash after installing the KB5002700 security update for Office 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The company acknowledged these problems <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/sysadmin\/comments\/1ju4sao\/patch_tuesday_megathread_20250408\/mm6apud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">following user reports<\/a> on social media that Office apps no longer open after applying the April 2025 security updates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re experiencing an issue on Windows 10 with Office 2016 where Word and Excel no longer open,\u201d one impacted Office user <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/sysadmin\/comments\/1ju4sao\/patch_tuesday_megathread_20250408\/mm6apud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released an out-of-band Office update to fix a known issue that caused Word, Excel, and Outlook to crash after installing the KB5002700 security update for Office 2016. The company acknowledged these problems following user reports on social media that Office apps no longer open after applying the April 2025 security updates. \u201cWe\u2019re experiencing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}