diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1f86b42..d36847e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: tables
 Title: Formula-Driven Table Generation
-Version: 0.9.24
+Version: 0.9.25
 Author: Duncan Murdoch
 Description: Computes and displays complex tables of summary statistics.
   Output may be in LaTeX, HTML, plain text, or an R
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 5cd0edd..d87d080 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# tables 0.9.24
+# tables 0.9.25
 
 - `PlusMinus()` and `Paste()` didn't handle formatting properly 
 when multiple columns were involved (issue #13).
diff --git a/R/tables_mform.R b/R/tables_mform.R
index b036a1c..d4e015b 100644
--- a/R/tables_mform.R
+++ b/R/tables_mform.R
@@ -52,14 +52,10 @@ matrix_form.tabular <- function(df) {
   
   # formatters has renamed the matrix_print_form function to
   # MatrixPrintForm
-  MatrixPrintForm <- 
-    if (exists("MatrixPrintForm", envir=asNamespace("formatters")))
-      formatters::MatrixPrintForm
-    else if (exists("matrix_print_form", envir=asNamespace("formatters")))
-      formatters::matrix_print_form
-    else
-      stop("formatters::MatrixPrintForm does not exist")
-      
+  MatrixPrintForm <- try(get("MatrixPrintForm", envir = asNamespace("formatters")), silent = TRUE)
+  if (inherits(MatrixPrintForm, "try-error"))
+    MatrixPrintForm <- get("matrix_print_form", envir = asNamespace("formatters"))
+
   MatrixPrintForm(strings = strings,
                     spans = spans,
                     aligns = aligns,
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 54322e7..ecb84ff 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,16 +1,11 @@
-# tables 0.9.17
+# tables 0.9.25
 
-It didn't fix the issue; some of the example results in \donttest sections
-were autoprinting as browsable HTML.
+Tried to handle the `formatters::matrix_print_form` differently,
+so we never refer to something that isn't there.
 
-# tables 0.9.16
+# tables 0.9.24
 
-This version doesn't call browseURL() non-interactively
-even in a \donttest section.  Hopefully this will deal with the
-"calibre" files.
+This is a minor release, fixing a few bugs and adding a function
+at the request of the `tinytables` package.  The submission was
+triggered by a change to the exports of the `formatters` package.
 
-# tables 0.9.15
-
-This is a relatively minor update, adding a few functions.  The
-reason to send it is that it is used in the R Tables Working Group
-project.