Power Query Update 2.16.3785.242 (64-bit) has Corrupted Excel

The most recent update to Power Query has rendered Excel useless. Any use of the Ctrl key (copying, pasting, etc.) will cause Excel to crash and restart.
A co-worker had the same problem yesterday and we were perplexed in its origin, though it became clear the update was the source after updating this morning.
We need a fix ASAP!

Hi W. If you can still repro the crashes, can you please do the following to get a crash dump and then send it to us? (You can use the Send a Frown functionality on the working version of PQ.)
Edit the registry, open the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting and change the DWORD value ForceQueue to 1
Open %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue in Windows Explorer to monitor it
Reproduce the crash – at this point something should appear briefly in the ReportQueue folder
Thanks,
Ehren

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Hey Ed, I apologize for un-proposing your answer so quick, I was on my Windows Phone but the forum loading spinner wouldn't leave the text entry field, so I couldn't input a reply until I got home.
I actually found a solution just today. This may not be the 'only' solution, but it worked well. When I had previously thought I had a solution, it only 'worked' because my subsequent refresh after making the table change didn't add any new rows of
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