{"id":244072,"date":"2026-09-15T21:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-confirms-kb5002914-excel-update-breaks-copy-and-paste"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:29","slug":"microsoft-confirms-kb5002914-excel-update-breaks-copy-and-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-confirms-kb5002914-excel-update-breaks-copy-and-paste","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft confirms KB5002914 Excel update breaks copy and paste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-confirms-kb5002914-excel-update-breaks-copy-and-paste.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has confirmed that copy and paste may silently fail for some Excel users after installing the September 2026 KB5002914 security update.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a wave of customer reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/excel\/comments\/1wbjfqx\/excel_2016_update_bug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reddit<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-my\/answers\/questions\/5998308\/excel-2016-update-windows-on-9-sep-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft Q&amp;A forums<\/a> that the KB5002914 Office security update is breaking copy-and-paste, autofill, and formula dragging in Excel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough users try to paste content, the source remains selected and the destination is unmodified,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/servicing\/office\/hotfix\/excel\/5002914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft said in an updated support document<\/a> confirming these issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has confirmed that copy and paste may silently fail for some Excel users after installing the September 2026 KB5002914 security update. This follows a wave of customer reports on Reddit and the Microsoft Q&amp;A forums that the KB5002914 Office security update is breaking copy-and-paste, autofill, and formula dragging in Excel. \u201cAlthough users try to [\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-244072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244072","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=244072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}