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Help!!

I'm using the Outlook app for email on my PC. I have an issue I've never encountered before and don't know how to fix it.

I'm trying to write a new email. Usually, one can type words, press return and move to a new line.

Now, when I type words, when I press return, the cursor moves to a new line but all text above gets erased. I can't even use the mouse or up arrow to go up. It's like all lines above the return are locked.

Any ideas? I don't think I did anything. I haven't been mucking with configuration or settings. Outlook was working one day and now it's not.

I can edit text fine here on SF. Editing text is fine in Word. Seems limited to Outlook.




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Seems to be a widespread issue. We've had multiple users reporting the same at work.

Luckily, we're on O365, so webmail has been a viable alternative.




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same thing is happening to an east coast colleague
 
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Oh really? Hmmm, maybe some patch sent out with a bug?

Okay, maybe I'll sit tight and wait. Would love to hear what happened here and who fucked up.

ETA: found another symptom. I can only view the first line for all old emails. Anything below the first line seems to be gone. I hope that's not a permanent thing. At least I can read full email via a web interface.




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I use Outlook in MS Office365 and have not seen those symptoms.

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This seems to be a global issue if you got updated today.

If your version wasn't updated today (ie - if you're smart like I will be in the future and turn off auto updates), then you're probably okay.

If you were updated today and you're not seeing issues, lucky.

ETA:
I'm using Office 2016 (not subscribed to the Office 365 shit).

It's not clear if I get all the same releases of O365. I found the last rollback version for O365 but not sure if I can use it for O2016.

Is there a log somewhere where I can look up the last version of Outlook before the patch today? If the fix takes more than a day, I'll wanna try to roll back to my last known good version.




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Originally posted by konata88:
This seems to be a global issue if you got updated today.

If your version wasn't updated today (ie - if you're smart like I will be in the future and turn off auto updates), then you're probably okay.

If you were updated today and you're not seeing issues, lucky.


See if uninstalling the update works.

MS released an update about 6-8 weeks ago, totally hosed everyone in my office when trying to print anything. It didn’t matter if you were trying to print something to PDF or to an actual printer. Blue screen, every time.

This started out on a Monday and I remembered my laptop pulled updates when shutting down on the previous Friday. I uninstalled the update it pulled, restarted and all was well. That apparently affected a load of people as a quick search found numerous hits about it on several pages.

I’ve had updates disabled since then and I’ll keep it like that for the foreseeable future. The laptop is only used for work anyway really. Anything else I do from another machine at home.

Edited for your edit- Go to Security and Updates, try removing the most recent one, then restart with updates disabled.

No idea if that’ll work for just Office as my issue was an actual OS snafu, but it’s worth a try.


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Happened to me at the office late this afternoon. I assume it'll be fixed by the morning.



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Weird. I’m sitting in a hotel and was trying to reply to an email and assumed it was my tablet or something. Got so frustrated I finished it by phone. Glad to hear it’s not just me.
 
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news...bility-issues-564434

Link from an IT colleague




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Have not tested, but got these instructions from the same IT guy:

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Open a command prompt by clicking on the Start Menu and typing CMD. When the 'Command Prompt' result appears, click on it.

In the command prompt type cd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun" and press enter.

You will now be in the ClickToRun folder. Type officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.13901.20462 and press enter

Microsoft Office will now download the specified version of Microsoft Office and roll back to that previous version. Please be patient as this may take a few minutes or longer, depending on your computer and Internet connection speed.

imageRolling back Microsoft Office to the previous versionRolling back Microsoft Office to the previous version

When the updates are finished installing, you will be shown a screen stating 'Updates were installed.' You can press the Close button on this screen.

Microsoft Outlook will now be rolled back to the previous version, and you should be able to start Microsoft Outlook again.

You can now close the Command Prompt by clicking on the X button.




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Thanks. I think I saw that. This seems to be specific to O365. Trying to figure out if this applies to Office 2016 (or which version does). I'm not subscribed to O365.




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Just started happening to me. I replied to someone at 4pm CST & all was good. Now I cannot do a payroll for a client as I have a question & he does not answer the phone.


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All is OK now. This is crazy!


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Wow, this has got to hurt. Someone's getting fired for making MSFT say this....

Microsoft to fix Outlook bug that prevents viewing or creating email
By Mayank Parmar -May 12, 20210

https://www.windowslatest.com/...g-or-creating-email/


Microsoft has confirmed the reports and it said that users are affected worldwide, and the official workaround is to use an alternate device, such as Android or iOS.




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Whoa



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I guess I'm confused with respect to the version of Outlook that's causing the problem(s). I'm running Outlook as part of Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 and haven't had a problem at all.



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Happened to me tonight! Rebooting corrected the problem for the moment. Expect a quick patch from MS to come out soon?

Maybe Bill is erasing everything on Outlook because somewhere, deep in someone's files, there is an email from Bill to Epstein about hooking up with some teenage girls...
 
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We experienced similar problems this afternoon. After sending an email I opened it up and 99% of the text was not visible. But viewing the same email on my phone, iPhone, not Outlook, the email viewed perfectly.


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I don’t understand how they can fuck up so badly. It’s not like a few people here and there. But lots of people around the world with various setups.

I can just imagine how hilarious it must be in msft now where they are trying to debug this and trying to communicate across teams using email but it doesn’t work. Do now they are all frantically setting up gmail accounts so they can share info. Hahaha.




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