Description of the security update for Excel 2016: July 11, 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-2017-8501 and Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2017-8502.

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

This security update contains improvements for the following nonsecurity issues:

• Improved some translations for the Swedish and German versions of Excel 2016.

This security update contains fixes for the following nonsecurity issues:

• You experience occasional unexpected crashes in Excel 2016.

• Assume that you apply formatting to a field cell, and the field doesn't have an entry for the right-most column on the rows axis. When you update the non-compact PivotTable, the formatting is lost.

• After you refresh a pivot table that's based on a data model, the pivot table is not updated if measures are in different tables than the data that's being aggregated.

• Excel may crash in the following scenarios:

  • When you do the Show Detail operation on a pivot table.

  • If recommended pivot tables in which data connection return no data.

  • You add a KPI to a pivot table.

  • You do the Redo operation of a pivot table refresh.

  • During the save after you undo or redo the setting default style.

  • You move a pivot table in which a data source is added to a data model to a new workbook.

  • You insert a native pivot table that shares an out-of-date pivot cache.

  • You search and then select Move PivotTable in the Tell me what you want to do list.

  • You create a set by using MDX for connections.

  • If the PowerPivot window is active after the workbook is hidden.

  • You dropdown the items in Pivot Table fields after hiding the current window.

  • You type values into a cell in the workbook.

  • During Single-Document Interface (SDI) window switch while Pivot Slicer is being changed.