3747805 - Special Characters Cause Error in Downloaded Excel File in "Display Actual Costing Result" App - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

• An error occurs when opening an Excel file generated from the "Display Actual Costing Result" app via Custom Export.
• Error message: "Excel was able to open the file by repairing or removing unreadable content. Repaired Records: XML error in /xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml part. A semicolon (;) was expected. Line X, column XXXX."
• Error message (variant): "Replaced Part: /xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml part with XML error. Illegal qualified name character."
• After opening the file, the data appears to be corrupted and no content is visible. 

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

The ampersand (&) and less-than (<) characters appear unescaped in xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml, resulting in invalid XML and Excel repair on open.

1. Rename the downloaded .xlsx file to .zip (e.g., Materials.xlsx → Materials.zip).
2. Extract the ZIP to a folder.
3. Open xl\worksheets\sheet1.xml in a text editor (e.g., Notepad++).
4. Use Find & Replace (Only replace & and < inside cell data values, not within XML tags.):
   • Replace & → &
   • Replace < → ~< 
5. Save the file.
6. Re-compress all contents back into a ZIP, then rename to .xlsx.

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