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Error when exporting a SharePoint list to Excel 2016: "An unexpected error has occurred"

Hello! I have been exporting SharePoint 2013 lists (on-premises) to Excel 2013 for the past 2 years. Now I have a new computer with Office 365 ProPlus Excel 2016 (version 1709) and suddenly I get an...
  • David Leveille's avatar
    Nov 02, 2017
    To summarize, you:
    - have sharepoint 2013 on prem;
    - have excel 2016 ProPlus;
    - you have a list in sharepoint that you select 'connect to excel' from;
    - the .iqy file shows up;
    - you open the .iqy file and excel throws that error
    Am I summarizing the issue?
    Some questions:
    - has your account changed in any way?
    - has your sharepoint list/library changed in any way (permissions)?
    - have you updated excel proplus to latest build?
    - are you on sp2013 latest patches?
    - is your machine in the same domain-joined environment it was?
    This will help get you more responses.

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