Description of the security update for PowerPoint 2016: September 12, 2017

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2017-8742, and Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2017-8743.

Note To apply this security update, you must have the release version of PowerPoint 2016 installed on the computer.

This security update contains improvements and fixes for the following nonsecurity issues:

• Improve the print quality of gradient files in printed PowerPoint 2016 documents.
• When you copy and paste a shape programmatically (using the PasteSpecial method) into a presentation in PowerPoint 2016, the shape isn't pasted as expected. For example, the shape may appear on an incorrect slide. Alternatively, another shape may take on unexpected formatting.
• When programmatically pasting slides from one presentation into another, slide placeholders are not placed in the proper position on the slide.
• When you try to open a password-protected document that has already been opened by another user in PowerPoint 2016, you don't receive a notification that informs the document is being opened as read-only.
• After you change embedded objects during slide show in PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2016 does not prompt to save changes.