MS15-070: Description of the security update for PowerPoint 2013: July 14, 2015

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-070.

Note To apply this security update, you must have the release version of Service Pack 1 for Office 2013 installed on the computer.

For a complete list of affected versions of Microsoft Office software, see KB3072620 .

Improvements and fixes

• Enables you to run VBA codes to turn on the laser pointer in Slide Show mode of a presentation in PowerPoint 2013 programmatically.
  
  
• This update also contains fixes for the following nonsecurity issues:
  • After you set the results of a Paste Special operation to a ShapeRange object, you cannot access the results.
    
  • When you use the SaveCopyAs method in the object model, PowerPoint 2013 still maintains the original presentation as the current active presentation.
    
  • Various high DPI improvements to user interfaces in PowerPoint 2013.