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If youre a Uber user, youd probably wait until in a few days to open your emailed receipts from the ride-sharing service. Why? Because theyll cause Outlook to crash. Microsoft Word, too.
Bleeping Computer highlights a support document from Microsoft that describes the issue. Uber uses what Microsoft identifies as complex tables within its receipt email, and the ones complex tables currently cause Outlook and Word to crash. It not merely affects the existing Channel of Outlook (i.e., the version you almost certainly use) but preview builds in today’s Channel and also the Beta Channel, too.
Word (and Outlook) will roll out a fix, but that fix is only going to go live when Microsoft deploys its Patch Tuesday updates in a few days, on August 9. Until then, your very best bet is merely merely to avoid Ubers emails altogether.
In the event that you simply cant do this, Microsoft recommends the next steps. First, open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges. Second, enter the next two commands, hitting the Enter key after every:
cd %programfiles%Common FilesMicrosoft SharedClickToRunofficec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.15225.20288Needless to say, youre perfectly absolve to open a receipt from Uber or any email provider on another client. (Presumably you might forward the e-mail to some other account, such as for example Gmails web client, to open it there.) Microsoft also hasnt identified any problems of the type which are linked to the Outlook app for Android and iOS, either. If all that doesnt do the job, though, youll can simply wait until in a few days, or stay away from Uber altogether?
