Microsoft has confirmed a number of points affecting Microsoft 365 prospects utilizing the “paste particular’ possibility and the calendar characteristic within the traditional Outlook e-mail shopper.
As the corporate explains, customers within the Present Channel attempting to make use of the Ctrl+Alt+V paste particular keyboard shortcut will see that it would not work after updating to Model 2503 Construct 18623.20156 due to modifications launched to this characteristic by the Phrase Crew in August 2024.
“This difficulty is going on due to current modifications to shortcuts carried out by the Phrase Crew, see weblog article Paste Textual content Solely shortcut in Phrase. Outlook will get the shortcut shared from Phrase. The article explains that you could restore the shortcuts and that may work for Phrase, nevertheless it doesn’t work in Outlook,” the Outlook Crew says.
Whereas a repair was already developed, it is going to begin rolling out to customers within the Beta Channel in early Might and to Present Channel Preview in early June, whereas Present Channel customers will solely get it round late June after updating to Model 2506 Construct 18925.20000.
Microsoft additionally advises utilizing the Alt+HVS shortcut to open the ‘Paste Particular‘ dialog or the ‘Paste Particular ‘ possibility on the Ribbon as a short lived workaround.
Nevertheless, those that want the repair sooner can swap to the Beta Channel by including a registry key by way of the next steps:
- Open a ‘Command Immediate’ window with ‘Run as administrator’ for Administrator context.
- Paste the command under and press Enter:
reg add HKLMSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftoffice16.0commonofficeupdate /v updatebranch /t REG_SZ /d BetaChannel - After you add the registry key, choose File > Workplace Account > Replace Choices, then ‘Replace Now’ to provoke the swap to Beta Channel.
This week, the Outlook Crew additionally mitigated a identified difficulty inflicting Outlook Calendars to render clean sections in Calendar View for customers with a number of calendars enabled.
The identified difficulty has been mounted by making a service change, and affected customers are suggested to restart traditional Outlook to choose up the change.
In January, Microsoft additionally mounted a traditional Outlook difficulty behind e-mail shopper freezes when copying textual content with the CTRL+C keyboard shortcut.
Extra lately, it introduced a repair for an Outlook bug triggering CPU spikes when typing messages and resolved a identified difficulty breaking drag-and-drop after putting in February 2025 Home windows updates.
