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Mahyar
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...
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  • Mahyar's avatar
    Mahyar
    7 years ago
    I believe it was short lived bug.
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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.

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cstreet
New Member
4 years ago

I have noticed the same behaviour today when the source files are .xls files. I previously never seen this happen with the same .xls files prior, it just started doing it today. I did notice a team member had some files opened. After they closed the .xls source files the issue was resolved.