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Tom_M_1969
Copper Contributor
Sep 23, 2022

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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    • RamonE1975's avatar
      RamonE1975
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 15, 2022

      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.

      • OVA-CJ's avatar
        OVA-CJ
        Brass Contributor
        Apr 24, 2023
        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?

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