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Benedikt Scheerer
Brass Contributor
Aug 22, 2017

Create list from Excel export - causes Errors within Sharepoint - Who can help?

Hello Community,   I wanted to create a list within Sharepoint (Office 365 E3). Background: The data for the list was already there in various Excel sheets.   My first approach: Copy and paste of...
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Matt Coats
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Aug 22, 2017

Let's take a look at the copy/paste method for a minute. Could you elaborate on how the copy/paste method didn't work? If you were trying to copy/paste a large amount of items (like several hundred at a time), I know from personal experience that this can cause SharePoint to just hang forever, especially if your table has a lot of fields.  If you haven't already, try copy/pasting a hundred or so records at a time.

 

I've no idea why your list created from an imported Excel sheet behaves that way, so I'm crossing my fingers for you that the copy/paste situation is salvageable.

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    Benedikt Scheerer
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 23, 2017

    Thanks Matt for your response. I tried the copy and paste option with my client's Sharepoint on premise solution - there it works. But not with my Office 365.

     

    Attached a short demonstraion. when trying to paste, simply nothing happens :-)

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