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LuiIacobellis
Aug 08, 2022Iron Contributor
Connecting SharePoint List To Excel Doesn't Return Person Column Data
Hello, I had a question regarding the behaviour I am observing when I connect to a SharePoint Online list from Excel. Specifically, in Excel, I click on the data tab > get data > from online serv...
- Feb 15, 2023I've since figured out how to resolve this issue and have posted a tutorial outlining the steps:
https://youtu.be/dJbwDTMXt74
ganeshsanap
Aug 08, 2022MVP
LuiIacobellis Probably because person or group and lookup columns are complex fields, not like simple text fields.
These fields have additional data associated with it like person columns has different properties like user display name, email, job title, etc.
Similarly, lookup columns has lookup list item ID and lookup value of primary column selected in column settings.
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