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Frequent Visitor

7 years ago

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Power Query Opens Source Workbook on Refresh

Hi, I have been experiencing an issue that when I refresh the query it opens the source workbook that it is refrencing. When I close the workbook it opens it again and again and again. It contin...

Mahyar
7 years ago
I believe it was short lived bug.

Frequent Visitor

7 years ago

I believe it was short lived bug.

Regular Visitor

6 years ago

I am expierencing the same issue.

I have a power query which is referencing two seperate excel-sheets and one of them (always the same one) is opened automatically, over and over again.

cant figure out why.

rpayne86
Frequent Visitor
4 years ago
Hey,

I'm experiencing the same issue. Did you ever find a solution?

Thanks
- msoehnchen
  Regular Visitor
  4 years ago
  No, but that was somehow tied to that specific workbook. After creating a new one and put the plain data from the old one into it, it worked fine. So, thats some setting in the workbook i guess.
  
  And, not sure if this matters or not: that "problematic" workbook came from the asian side of the world whereas i am located in Europe.
  - rpayne86
    Frequent Visitor
    4 years ago
    I've done some more thorough testing, and have narrowed it down to XLSB files. If the source for the Powerquery is an XLSB, and if another user is in that file, it decides to spring open a copy of that file (as read only).
    If another user doesn't have the file open, it typically refreshes ok.
    
    If you change the file to an XLSM (Or probably XLSX), the issue does not occur whether another user has the file open or not.
    As it happens I believe PQ pulls in the latest SAVED version of the file, not the Live copy, and so I'm confused why read/write even makes a blind bit of difference.
    
    We bounced round ideas that perhaps because the XSLB does not use the openXML standard that this may be why it causes issues.