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Brownie71
May 11, 2019Copper Contributor
Export to Excel feature in Sharepoint 2013 list not working
When i am in a Sharepoint 2013 list with data and click Export to Excel in the top ribbon then i get the following message in a popup window: "To export a list, you must have a Microsoft SharePoint F...
Robin Nilsson
Jul 22, 2019Bronze Contributor
Brownie71 This has been true of Chrome since forever - one of the reasons we have to keep IE11 around. Hopefully the new IE support in Chromium Edge will help.
Not a graceful workaround, not a solution, and definitely a pain, but if you hit this when using Chrome and don't have IE11 around, right click on that page and 'save as' without renaming. When the file is done downloading (it's an .iqy file), click on it to open it and it will open in Excel and work fine - you can save the Excel and the query will stay intact.