Hyperlink insert crashes Office 2016 & Windows 10 Creators Update

It is impossible not to respond with "My God!!" :-).  Yes, I moved my god-mode folder to the Desktop.  Now Hyperlinks work.  This seems so stupid, somehow, but anyway, I'm glad to have fixed the problem.

jj

I can't figure the logic, but the reality is, deleting the God Mode folder from My Documents fixes this crash. 

I'm running Office 2016 (365) on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709).

I used to have God Mode on my desktop, but I found the folder in the default "My Documents" folder. It was identified with the same icon as Control Panel and no name.

Hi EJToll,

You don't have to delete it. Just put it in a folder. By default it becomes the first item searched when you want to add a hyperlink in a document.

This problem only showed up with the creator's update. I don't know what MS changed, but they won't fix it and didn't admit anything about it.

I can't figure the logic, but the reality is, deleting the God Mode folder from My Documents fixes this crash. 

I'm running Office 2016 (365) on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709).

I used to have God Mode on my desktop, but I found the folder in the default "My Documents" folder. It was identified with the same icon as Control Panel and no name.

Thank you, Richard!  

Micros*** (I prefer this spelling.  It leaves it to the imagination...I've filled in those blanks with a variety of different letters, depending on how miserable they've made me at that moment) has me as addicted as a heroin user, but there is no methadone equivalent for me.  I can't afford to switch everything to Apple.  Because I work like a maniac, self-employed, I don't have the time to stop working and move 24 years' worth of records to a new architecture that I don't know how to use.

I built my computer to last me awhile.  I just had no idea that the new Windows and Office software was such a tremendous downgrade in functionality. 

I also didn't know that a company could get away with treating its customers in such a deplorable manner. 

Seriously, like a moron, I called tech support for Excel 2016/365 'click-to-irritate' and their tech's first question, when I asked why Excel would no longer total a list of hours/minutes, like it always could before this miserable iteration, was, "Do you have a formula in your spreadsheet?"  I answered, "Yes.  It is 'sum(above)'."   She answered, "We don't support spreadsheets with formulas (sic)."

All that said, I say bring on OpenVMS and/or ReactOS.  I'll find the time to learn it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for being gigantic jerks, Micros***!  

But (genuinely), thank you, Richard, if nothing else, our back-and-forth has been very cathartic!  I still like the idea of a good ol', hippie-style why-is-micros***-allowed-to-get-away-with-this protest in the 50 largest cities in the US.

And really, why do they wish to harm their customers?

I did notice 'they' edited your previous post (I enjoyed getting to read it in its virgin form!), so, unless they have robots that edit certain words, I imagine some lowly micros*** employee did read what we're saying here.  So, deductive reasoning: they don't give a flying f***!  My only conclusion - I hate their guts!!!