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Excel file can't find source Excel file
Greetings, Not sure if I should post here or in the Excel Community. I have two Excel workbooks in the same folder on a SharePoint resource. One is the data source. It is a large workbook with lots...
- Since nobody from MS answered this with "that's a feature, not a bug", I started to wonder if this problem might not be you (SharePoint), but is me. But "me" how/what? The only awful thought I could think of is that my source, data Excel file was corrupted. After a couple days of trying hard to ignore that possibility, I gave up and began the task of rebuilding the source file from scratch. Once that painful task was complete, I pointed the report file to the new source file, and.... magic! Everything now works. Based on that, I assume my original source Excel file was corrupted. Painful!
Since nobody from MS answered this with "that's a feature, not a bug", I started to wonder if this problem might not be you (SharePoint), but is me. But "me" how/what? The only awful thought I could think of is that my source, data Excel file was corrupted. After a couple days of trying hard to ignore that possibility, I gave up and began the task of rebuilding the source file from scratch. Once that painful task was complete, I pointed the report file to the new source file, and.... magic! Everything now works. Based on that, I assume my original source Excel file was corrupted. Painful!
