Excel Does Nothing When Inserting/Deleting Rows or Columns

Anonymous
2024-06-06T13:08:38+00:00

When using excel since the May 30th update, Excel does nothing when inserting/deleting rows/columns.

The insert and insert paste row/column options are not greyed out on right click. When the insert option is selected, nothing happens. Same for the Insert sheet rows/columns in the home tab: nothing happens when clicked. No error messages either, it seems like excel just forgets what you told it to do.

This is happening on newly opened blank workbooks as well, so there are no frozen panes, sheet protection, hidden rows, worksheet errors or corrupt workbooks, and there's no point in restarting excel for a workbook that was just opened.

I have already repaired and re-installed office 365.

Restarting the computer allows me to insert rows/columns 2-3 times before it breaks again.

EDIT: added "deleting" and "columns" to initial "could not insert rows"

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-06-13T04:08:42+00:00

    You may try setting calculation option to manual when you meet that issue. It seems caused by Excel is still calculating which makes Excel stuck on deleting or inserting rows.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-13T03:55:23+00:00

    Hi guys,

    My user has the exact same issue.

    Right click -> Insert and nothing happen. But after closing and re-opening Excel, it's working again. (My user is using Office 2016)

    I'm not sure what the cause was but it might be some minor bug.

    Regards,

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-12T13:58:41+00:00

    You may try Roll back Office update

    ODT tool

    How to revert to an earlier version of Office - Microsoft Support

    Or CMD

    1. Start an Office application (such as Excel), and then select File > Account. select Update Options > Disable Updates.
    2. Type cmd on the start menu, right click on the Command Prompt, choose Run as Administrator
    3. Copy/paste these two commands one at a time and press enter

    cd %programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun

    officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.17531.20152

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-12T13:50:57+00:00

    I'm having the same issue recently.

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