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Power Query Opens Source Workbook on Refresh
- I believe it was short lived bug.
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.
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.