A limited set of users with Excel 2016 and other standalone Excel purchases have been struggling to paste.

For years, Excel was powerful but temperamental. You learned pretty quickly to walk on eggshells around your formulas just to keep things from breaking. But while most of us were building workarounds ...

After updating to iPadOS 26, I noticed that Microsoft Excel suddenly stopped working the way it used to. At first, it would freeze when opening certain files. Then, it began crashing without warning.