Microsoft Office January 2018 Patch Day
Microsoft released updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016 yesterday on the January 2018 Office non-security Patch Day.
Microsoft reserves the first Tuesday of the month for the release of non-security patches for Microsoft Office. The second Tuesday of a month brings security patches for Office, Windows, and other Microsoft products.
The company released updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016 only. Patches were not released for Office 2010 or 2007.
Note: The updates apply only to Microsoft Installer-based editions of Office 2013 or Office 2016. They don't apply to Office 2013 or 2016 Click to Run Editions such as Microsoft Office 365 Home.
Office 2013 Patches
KB3172510 -- The update improves the thesaurus for modern usage guidelines for all Office 2013 products.
- Download update KB3172510 for 32-bit version of Office 2013
- Download update KB3172510 for 64-bit version of Office 2013
KB4011635 -- Fixes an issue in PowerPoint 2013 that truncated files containing some special characters after installation of KB3141461.
- Download update KB4011635 for 32-bit version of Office 2013
- Download update KB4011635 for 64-bit version of Office 2013
KB4011640 -- The update fixes issues in Project 2013. It corrects issues that throw the following error messages:
"This operation cannot be completed because the source file contains invalid project data or the total number of rows would exceed the limit of 1,048,000 rows in a project. Validate the data in the source file, insert fewer rows, delete some rows, or consider dividing your project into subprojects to provide more space for tasks and resources.".
"The date you entered isn't supported for this field. Dates must be between January 1, 1984, through December 31, 2149. Enter the date in the correct format, eg., 15/06/00 or 15 June 2000"
- Download update KB4011640 for 64-bit version of Project 2013
- Download update KB4011640 for 64-bit version of Project 2013
KB4011638 -- Update for Skype for Business 2015.
- Download the 32-bit version of Skype for Business 2015 update package now
- Download the 64-bit version of Skype for Business 2015 update package now
Office 2016 Patches
KB4011221 -- The update fixes a crash bug in Access 2016 when adding a lookup column to a related table in the Datasheet view. It fixes that the Home tab shows up in the ribbon when opening a password protected Access runtime application while the password dialog box is up.
- Download update KB4011221 for 32-bit version of Access 2016
- Download update KB4011221 for 64-bit version of Access 2016
KB3178662 -- Same as KB3172510 for Office 2013. It improves the thesaurus.
- Download update KB3178662 for 32-bit version of Office 2016
- Download update KB3178662 for 64-bit version of Office 2016
KB4011146 -- The update for Office 2016 improves some translations and makes sure that the ribbon displays only add-ins that were marked as enabled.
- Download update KB4011146 for 32-bit version of Office 2016
- Download update KB4011146 for 64-bit version of Office 2016
KB4011569 -- The update improves font selection "to display the text correctly" and a bug in Outlook 2016 that saw recipient names not being pasted correctly when you copy and replace among the To, CC, and BCC fields.
- Download update KB4011569 for 32-bit version of Office 2016
- Download update KB4011569 for 64-bit version of Office 2016
KB4011625 -- Fixes a bug in Outlook 2016 that made the attachment list disappear after selecting attach file to add a file attachment to a message.
- Download update KB4011625 for 32-bit version of Office 2016
- Download update KB4011625 for 64-bit version of Office 2016
KB4011630 -- This Office 2016 update adds a Registry key that enables authentication even if Online Content is disabled.
- Download update KB4011630 for 32-bit version of Office 2016
- Download update KB4011630 for 64-bit version of Office 2016
KB4011631 -- This update improves font selection to display the texts correctly in Office 2016 applications.
- Download update KB4011631 for 32-bit version of Office 2016
- Download update KB4011631 for 64-bit version of Office 2016
KB4011644 -- Fixed line endings may display inversely during slide presentations in a scatter chart or chart that contains a series of lines.
- Download update KB4011644 for 32-bit version of Office 2016
- Download update KB4011644 for 64-bit version of Office 2016
KB4011564 -- The update corrects the translation for "Slides" in the Korean version of PowerPoint 2016.
- Download update KB4011564 for 32-bit version of PowerPoint 2016
- Download update KB4011564 for 64-bit version of PowerPoint 2016
KB4011633 -- The update fixes several issues in Project 2016 including the one fixed in KB4011640 for Office 2013. Check the KB for details.
- Download update KB4011633 for 32-bit version of Project 2016
- Download update KB4011633 for 64-bit version of Project 2016
KB4011215 - The update fixes a reliabiltiy issue in Visio 2016.
- Download update KB4011215 for 32-bit version of Visio 2016
- Download update KB4011215 for 64-bit version of Visio 2016
KB4011623 -- Update for Skype for Business 2016.
- Download the 32-bit version of Skype for Business 2016 update package now
- Download the 64-bit version of Skype for Business 2016 update package now
There is no rush to install any of these patches. You may want to consider installing them if you ran into issues that these patches fix.
Thanks Martin for informing us of the January 2018 Office patches.
I have a question about the MS Office patches to you.
Every month when you informing us about the operating system (o.s.) updates on the second Tuesday of the month you always mentioning and also linking, to a ferry handy MS Excell spreadsheet where all the o.s. updates are listed.
Is there no such MS Excell spreadsheet for the MS Office patch day?
Paulus, no there is not unfortunately.