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How can I fix a sharepoint excel file that opens in gibberish to normal text?
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Anonymous
We are using shared reports from a sharepoint having the convenience of accessing these reports via browser. But a few days ago, certain users are having problems with these reports, because when they access them, they see gibberish rather than normal text. This does not happen when its opened on the desktop app, only when its opened on the browser.
How can I fix this?
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Anonymous
2023-01-25T18:03:08+00:00 -
Anonymous
2023-01-27T09:52:09+00:00 Hi,
I'm seeing this intermittently in my org as well.
Do we have a fix yet?
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Anonymous
2023-01-27T09:59:19+00:00 Related team is working on it. Just wait or you can raise a support ticket.
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Anonymous
2023-01-27T16:40:00+00:00 Do you have any more info on this? I have a couple users at a client having a similar issue with one of their shared documents. They also get a warning that uploads are blocked when opening it in the Excel desktop app.
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Anonymous
2023-01-30T20:14:47+00:00 I would like to add my name to the list of admins experiencing this issue with users.
Selecting all text and changing the font does work but this is not a fix because the purpose of the web/outlook view is for it to be a quick glance. If you're going to go through all that then you may as well just open it in the full excel program which I have not seen this issue replicated in.
Based on the timing could this have been caused by an update around the 18th as that's when I also received reports of this happening with my users as well.