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Word 2016 error.

Apparently this is an antiquated condition based on the answers posted in 2011.

This is 2016. There is nothing in the blank document.

I've been copying information from WEB into Word for recording and reference for years and have never had this problem until today. Tried piecemeal with no success.

Notice that Office 2016 was recently updated and if this feature was reincorporated it's not a good thing unless there is

an override somewhere in Doc Options that can be switched on to ignore this condition?

The user should be in control. If the MCP is listening please don't take it personal.

Thanks.

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Anonymous

Hi everyone,

I’m told that his issue is now fixed in the latest Office 2016 updated, which we recently released.

The current version is 16.0.6965.2058. This update contains features in the May feature update described below, plus new security and non-security updates. To find out more, go to our release notes page, and under Channel, click Current.

To get the update immediately, open any Office 2016 app and choose File > Account > Update Options >Update Now.

Best,

-Erik

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Anonymous

2016-06-02T03:01:08+00:00

I found a work around. I do brochures that include my prospects company logo. Just started today 6/1/16 that now I cannot remove the last one and paste over it with the new logo - now get a "too many edits" error. I found that if I do Control V instead of "Paste" it actually pastes. Will not work with paste button
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2016-10-05T18:08:06+00:00

That did not fix that problem, I too am having that issue with three different PC's all running different versions of Word. It really **** me off to spend so much time with software that is suppose to be professional. Why Micro Soft does not fix this is beyound me, everytime a new release comes out it has some type of bug int the software. I use to work for a large computer company that tested software on the customers all the time... Put it out there then we will find and fix the bugs. The old versiion of Word Did Not Have The Issues We Have Today....
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2016-05-29T13:56:42+00:00

Thank you for the reply. Tried both suggestions with no success.

Cannot copy and past any significant amount of information directly from WEB articles into Word without the error popping up.

Does work with some simple selected text.

Still suspect that the problem was introduced in the recent update and has to do with special features that I have generally manually removed in the past.

Would be curious to know why this error started today.

Will continue to investigate this issue in hopes of finding a solution.

Thanks.
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2016-05-29T13:20:01+00:00

Hi,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

I would like to know the Office build installed on the computer.

Let us try to check the compatibility and check if it helps.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Check-file-compatibility-with-earlier-versions-D9856881-5875-4C58-915F-06859B2943A7

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/what-is-program-compatibility#1TC=windows-7

Hope this information helps you. Please let us know if you need additional information.

Thank you.
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