{"id":244316,"date":"2026-09-21T21:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-fixes-broken-excel-copy-and-paste-for-all-office-users"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:27:01","slug":"microsoft-fixes-broken-excel-copy-and-paste-for-all-office-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-fixes-broken-excel-copy-and-paste-for-all-office-users","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fixes broken Excel copy and paste for all Office users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-fixes-broken-excel-copy-and-paste-for-all-office-users.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has fixed a known issue that causes copy-and-paste failures for Excel users after installing the September 2026 security updates.<\/p>\n<p>The bug was confirmed following 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 this month\u2019s updates (including the KB5002914 security update) break copy-and-paste, autofill, and formula dragging in Excel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Microsoft Excel 2024, 2021, 2019, and 2016, as well as Excel Online in Office Online Server, the paste operation might fail silently,\u201d Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/support\/known-issues\/paste-not-work-excel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">explains in a support document<\/a> updated on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has fixed a known issue that causes copy-and-paste failures for Excel users after installing the September 2026 security updates. The bug was confirmed following a wave of customer reports on Reddit and the Microsoft Q&amp;A forums that this month\u2019s updates (including the KB5002914 security update) break copy-and-paste, autofill, and formula dragging in Excel. \u201cIn [\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-244316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244316","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=244316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}