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JWhiteFEI
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Oct 02, 2020
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Unable to add existing list to Lists in Teams channel

I am having an issue adding an existing list to Lists in Teams. I can add all other lists from this group/site to the desired Teams channel, except this one. I am getting an error: "That link did not...
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    NHarzic
    Mar 15, 2021

    That rings a bell. We created the SharePoint list by exporting from an Excel table. I am sure this is a similar problem, because if I create a new SharePoint list from scratch it is available in Teams Lists. I have found the workaround is to simply use the Website tab and paste in the list URL there. This seems to do exactly the same thing.

    Thank you for your reply, Natalie

     

    joeledvina 

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SamLee
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Apr 07, 2021

JWhiteFEI 

Does anyone know what causes this error? Are there certain columns or column type created by the Excel/Access export that cause the error (and that I could delete or reamke instead of remaking the full list?)

Or any update from Microsoft on whether they're trying to fix this?

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