August 8, 2017, update for Word 2016 (KB3213656)

Known issues in this update

After you install this update 3213656, you may experience the following issues:

• If you merge vertical cells in a table, the cell content disappears, and you can't select the merged cell.

• If you open an existing document that has a table that contains merged cells, the cells are displayed as blank.

These issues occur only for users who receive Microsoft Office 2016 updates by using the Windows Installer (MSI) technology. If you have a Click-to-Run edition of Office, such as Office 365 Personal, you won't encounter these issues.

Improvements and fixes

This update fixes the following issues:

• When you open a document that has a legacy shape in Word 2016, Word 2016 may freeze.

• The hidden text isn't displayed even though the Print hidden text option is enabled in Word 2016.

• Japanese characters in the vertical text may be displayed as square boxes in Word 2016.

• Content with negative indent may be cropped in a non-first column in the presence of tables.

• The manual hyphenation functionality does not work as expected in Word 2016. Not all words that could be hyphenated are actually hyphenated.

• When you send an email with some spelling mistakes in Outlook 2016 in Windows 10, the regular proofing dialog isn't displayed as expected if the Always check spelling before sending option is enabled.

• Assume that you have a Word document opened. When you open another document that has a task pane add-in embedded, the add-in is displayed in the first Word document.

How to download and install the update

Update information

Prerequisites

To apply this update, you must have Microsoft Word 2016 installed.

Restart information

You may have to restart the computer after you install this update.

More information

To determine whether your Office installation is Click-to-Run or MSI-based, follow these steps:

1. Start an Office 2016 application.

2. On the File menu, select Account.

3. For Office 2016 Click-to-Run installations, an Update Options item is displayed. For MSI-based installations, the Update Options item isn't displayed.

How to uninstall this update

Windows 10

1. Go to Start, enter View Installed Updates in the Search Windows box, and then press Enter.

2. In the list of updates, locate and select KB3213656, and then select Uninstall.

Windows 8 and Windows 8.1

1. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then select Search. If you're using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then select Search.

2. Enter windows update, select Windows Update, and then select Installed Updates.

3. In the list of updates, locate and select KB3213656, and then select Uninstall.

Windows 7

1. Go to Start, enter Run, and then select Run.

2. Enter Appwiz.cpl, and then select OK.

3. Select View installed updates.

4. In the list of updates, locate and select KB3213656, and then select Uninstall.

References

Learn about the standard terminology that's used to describe Microsoft software updates.

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File information

The English (United States) version of this software update installs files that have the attributes that are listed in the following tables. The dates and the times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The dates and the times for these files on your local computer are displayed in your local time together with your current daylight saving time (DST) bias. Additionally, the dates and the times may change when you perform certain operations on the files.

x86

word-x-none.msp file information

x64

word-x-none.msp file information