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Glitch when creating Sharepoint list from Excel
I've been trying to create a Sharepoint list from an Excel spreadsheet, and I keep having a problem with one column. The column contains mostly numbers, but they are not formatted very consistently. Some records have additional characters like #, / or -, which is not a problem for me.
However, if I choose "Number" as the data type for that column in Sharepoint, I get errors on the records that contain non-numeric characters, and the entire list isn't converted. If I first convert the column to Text or General format in Excel, then choose "single line of text" as my Sharepoint data type, the list isn't created at all. After a few seconds it says that the process is 100% complete, but no list is created.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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I have had a lot of frustrations with lists as well. I have very detailed sheets we're trying to migrate to Lists. I have found you can not have more than 299 columns and you can not have more than 4,999 rows. Further, I have tried importing only 1k rows as just a test and ran into the same issue where 100% complete was stated but there was no list created. Your only options are back and cancel. If you click either one of these it will not create the list. What 100% complete really means is "in process," if you keep waiting, that screen will close and your sheet will open. I had this sheet open blank but refreshing that page showed my imported excel.
Tom_M_1969Try saving as.. CSV File. It works for me.
Encountering the same issue. Added reply to follow along.
Lizabeth Stevens
Here same behavior trying to create a list from an online excel with +15000 rows.process is 100% complete, but no list is created and pop up gives no alternative to close or cancel or back.
- I started to reply to this thread echoing the same issue; 1) error when importing certain columns as numbers, then freezing when importing all columns as Single Line Of Text. But whilst typing the list eventually finished importing. My spreadsheet was 4540 rows long, so maybe it's just an issue of waiting long enough?
