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Virtual_Ames
10 years agoMicrosoft Employee
[DataFormat.Error] External table is not in the expected format.
Community, I am having a problem importing files from a sharepoint folder (6 files that need to be brought together). I see these as .xls files in Sharepoint and therefore use: let ...
Johanno
8 years agoContinued Contributor
I saw in another forum that someone wrote that this can occur when you export to Excel files from third party software. A workaround that worked for me is that if you open each file with Excel and save it, after this you can import it. It's not a good solution though if you have many files.