KB2553154 Breaks COM and Active X controls in Excel

Anonymous
2014-12-10T14:28:48+00:00

Hi

The last windows update batch contained update KB2553154 for office 32 bit.

This update breaks all COM and Active x controls in Excel (i.e. buttons, combo boxes etc.). Like many businesses we use Excel with these controls extensively and this update is crippling Excel for our users.

We have installed and uninstalled it on a number of machines both Windows 7 and Windows 8 and have proved this update is causing the issue.

PLEASE Microsoft withdraw or fix this update we can hardly go around all our pc's worldwide and manually uninstalling it.

Regards

A customer wondering if you test your updates before releasing them

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HansV 462.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2014-12-10T14:49:07+00:00

Quit Excel.

Start Windows Explorer.

Select the system drive (usually C:).

Use the Search box to search for *.exd

Delete all found files.

(Thanks to Excel MVP RoryA for this tip)

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Anonymous
2016-10-18T19:07:46+00:00

I know that this is way beyond when you posted this but I was able to fix this problem by updating Microsoft Office to the latest service pack. Then installing excel2010-kb2956142-fullfile-x86-glb.exe for Office 2010 andexcel2013-kb2956145-fullfile-x86-glb.exe for Office 2013. Hope this might help out someone else out there trying to figure out this problem.  Also this page has some information on fixes as well. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3017349

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-03-03T15:07:32+00:00

    Have you checked the users roaming profile this may not be in the volume C:\ if your environment is anything like where I am  it may be on a network share

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-03-17T16:31:46+00:00

    We are now starting to see the issue occurring in spite of deleting all .exd files, and removing the security update(s) from users' machines. Is it possible that Microsoft has since sent out another security update that built on the previous one (KB2596927, KB2553154, KB2726958)?

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  3. HansV 462.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-03-17T17:00:49+00:00

    Microsoft released a series of updates a week ago (March 10, 2015) that should have fixed the problems that started in December, but some people still report problems...

    Word 2007: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/2956109

    Excel 2007: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/2956103

    PowerPoint 2007: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/2899580

    Word 2010: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/2956139

    Excel 2010: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/2956142

    PowerPoint 2010: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/2920812

    Office 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2920754

    Word 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/2956163

    PowerPoint 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2965206

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