Microsoft released MS16-004 on Jan. 12, and weird Visual Basic 6, VBA, and SharePoint 2013 errors have followed in its wake.
The complaints I’ve seen center on the Office 2010 patch KB 2881029, Office 2013 patch KB 3039794, and Office 2016 patch KB 2920727, all running on Windows 7.
The symptoms are many and varied, but all seem to be due to a problematic new version of the MSComctLib.ocx common control library for VB6 and VBA. It looks like the new version, 6.01.9846, saves templates that don’t work properly on machines with older versions of MSComctLib.ocx. It’s not clear to me if those same templates throw errors when run on some machines with the new version of MSComctLib.ocx.
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