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Unable to run Excel Add-ins after (KB5002653) latest patch
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Anonymous
Dear all,
Our company is using Office 2016 and we've numbers of addons become failure to use , which seemed that related to the latest Nov Security Update (KB5002653).
Does anybody facing the same problem?? (The office edition is now become 16.0.5474.1000)
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2024-11-13T15:04:28+00:00 Yes, we have the same problem, uninstalling KB5002653 fixes this issue.
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Günter Born 49,456 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2024-11-14T09:44:06+00:00 The issue has been confirmed and there are workarounds - see my blog post from tonight.
Excel 2016 can no longer load add-ins after Nov. 2024 update KB5002653
Hope that helps.
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Anonymous
2024-11-13T10:51:54+00:00 Dear CEBM Admin,
Welcome to the Microsoft Community.
If this only appears after the latest update, which could be some compatibility issue with Office add-ins that exists with the newer versions of the update, then I'm wondering if uninstalling this KB patch temporarily might help?
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