Symptom
- When trying to open a specific Dashboards report the following error occurs:
"Could not connect to Microsoft Excel. To prevent further data corruption, the program must close." - Newly created dashboard file can be opened in the designer without any issues.
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Environment
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x
- SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.x
- Microsoft Office - Excel 2007
- Microsoft Office - Excel 2010
- Microsoft Office - Excel 2013
- Microsoft Office - Excel 2016
Product
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 ; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 ; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.2
Keywords
dashboards, excel, could not connect , KBA , BI-RA-XL , Obsolete: BusinessObjects Dashboards and Presentation Design , How To
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