3635244 - The Complete data from the Purchasing reports cannot be exported to Excel - SAP ERP & SAP S/4 HANA.

When attempting to export data from Purchasing reports to Excel, the ALV grid generates a corrupted XLSX file that cannot be opened in Microsoft Excel. The error message displayed is similar to the following:

Removed Part: /xl/sharedStrings.xml part with XML error.  (Strings) Illegal xml character. Line 1, column 230919.
Removed Records: Cell information from /xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml part

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• Materials Management (MM)
• SAP ERP Central Component
• SAP ERP
• SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP
• SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA
• SAP S/4HANA

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