Make Financial Edge and Microsoft Office 2016 compatible.

Release a patch to make Financial Edge compatible with Microsoft Office 2016.

  • TiJuana Harris
  • Dec 7 2016
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  • Guest commented
    23 Apr, 2018 06:33pm

    Looking for an up to date response from an Admin on this...
    Our IT department is currently updating all computers to Windows 10/Office 2016.
    Development Office is currently updating RE/FE/BBNC to RE 7.96 Patch8 / FE 7.87 Patch 23 / BBNC 7.11 SP 3...
    What issues are we going to have?
    When will the Blackbaud products be compatible with what is coming up to being an "old" system?

  • Guest commented
    6 Mar, 2018 03:17pm

    The fact that Financial Edge 7.87 Patch 22 is STILL not compatible with Office 2016, 2.5 years after Office 2016 was released, is unreasonable. This is per BB KB #102474. There is speculation that Office 2019 will be released later in 2018 (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3229906/software-productivity/office-2019-is-coming-heres-what-you-need-to-know.html). Will Office 2016 be compatible with FE 7.87 before Office 2019 is released? If this trend continues, how long will we have to wait after Office 2019 is released until it is compatible with Financial Edge?

  • Guest commented
    22 Feb, 2018 10:13pm

    Hi Julie! Our Finance staff reported that they receive an error message in Excel 2016 when they try to export a query from Financial Edge 7.87. Error message - “Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space. To make more memory available, close workbooks or programs you no longer need. To free disk space, delete files you no longer need from the disk you are saving to.”

  • TiJuana Harris commented
    22 Feb, 2018 10:11pm

    Hi Julie,

    Our Finance staff reported that they receive an error message in Excel when they try to export a query from Financial Edge. Error message - “Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space. To make more memory available, close workbooks or programs you no longer need. To free disk space, delete files you no longer need from the disk you are saving to.”

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    Thanks,

    TiJuana Harris
    IT Specialist
    The Institute for Advanced Learning & Research
    150 Slayton Avenue
    Danville, VA 24540
    Phone: 434.766.6744
    Fax: 434.791.3279

  • Julia Petit commented
    22 Feb, 2018 06:21pm

    Thank you all for your feedback on this.  The prioritization of this is currently underway, to help us fully understand the need for this, can you tell me a bit more about what you are unable to do in either FE7 or FENXT due to having Office 2016 installed?

  • Guest commented
    14 Feb, 2018 08:40pm

    This is unacceptable - Office 2016 has been out for 2 1/2 years.  Blackbaud needs to keep up with Microsoft products so we are not lagging behind.

  • Guest commented
    21 Nov, 2017 09:32pm

    I was referring to Financial Edge 7.87. 

  • Guest commented
    21 Nov, 2017 09:30pm

    Will the following article be updated? - https://kb.blackbaud.com/articles/Article/102474

    It says "Microsoft Office 2016 is not supported with the The Financial Edge. The compatibility between the The Financial Edge and Microsoft 2016 is currently under evaluation by our Product Development team. At this time, there is no estimated timeline for a potentially compatible release."

  • Deleted User commented
    21 Nov, 2017 07:49pm

    Hi TiJuana! Financial Edge NXT is definitely compatible with Microsoft Office 2016.