Oh, rattling! Phrase and Outlook can crash once you kind

Microsoft warns that merely typing in a number of Microsoft 365 apps may cause the app itself to unexpectedly crash, a moderately impolite technique to interrupt your day! Whereas there’s no repair at present, there’s a workaround.

Neowin unearthed this Microsoft assist doc from Wednesday, which will get proper to the purpose: “Outlook, Phrase, or OneNote unexpectedly shut when typing.”

“After updating to Model 2407 Construct 17830.20138 or larger you discover that Outlook, Phrase, or OneNote might unexpectedly shut when typing or doing different authoring duties equivalent to spell verify,” Microsoft mentioned. All three apps are a part of Microsoft 365, which implies that a continuing movement of updates is a part of this subscription service.

It’s most likely fairly clear that each one three apps are topic to the bug in the event that they unexpectedly crashed whilst you have been the center of a completely essential report that’s due quickly. (Clearly, be sure you have auto-save turned on.)

To substantiate this, nonetheless, Microsoft suggests that you simply have a look at the Home windows Occasion Viewer Software Log for Occasion 1000 or Occasion 1001, after which the next occasion particulars:  

Faulting utility title: OUTLOOK.EXE, model: 16.0.17830.20138, time stamp: 0x66aaad8c 
Faulting module title: mscss7it.dll, model: 16.0.12527.20122, time stamp: 0x5e439ea1 Exception code: 0xc0000005  
Fault offset: 0x000000000003e518  
Faulting course of id: 0x0x51B0  
Faulting utility begin time: 0x0x1DAE97DD89190C3

Microsoft says that the bug might happen if the language pack isn’t up to date, too. Within the instance above, “mscss7it.dll” refers back to the Italian language pack. The file title might fluctuate by language.

There’s no repair, however there’s a workaround. Microsoft suggests both performing an on-line restore of the Workplace utility or else uninstalling and reinstalling the language pack. Microsoft gives some help on how to do this, right here. 

Lastly, bear in mind to avoid wasting!