Excel 2.113.5 not saving xslm sheet locally on ipad mini 6 or uploading to sharepoint. Excel 2.113.4 works fine.

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Excel 2.113.5 not saving xslm sheet locally on ipad mini 6 or uploading to sharepoint. Excel 2.113.4 works fine.

Drew Daniell 0

Good Morning, when updating to excel 2.113.5 excel xslm spreadsheet on our Ipad mini 6 will not save locally on the ipad with any data. It will show up in “my files” but with zero kb and when you click on it the spreadsheet, it is empty. When we now try to share a spreadsheet to another Ipad the screen darkens and a little rotating symbol appears with “waiting” or “working on it” indefinitely and gets stuck on that. Uploading to sharepoint from the ipad no longer works on 2.113.5 either. We have been using the same xlsm spreadsheet for many years without issue. We have an Ipad mini 6 that is still using Excel version 2.113.4 and it experiences none of these issues and works fine. This is a very important part of our companies day to day operations and appreciate any fixes or updated provided for this. Thank you in Adavance.

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Aetherin 2,250 Independent Advisor

Good day @Drew Daniell,

Just to gently clarify before going any further, this forum is separate from Microsoft Support. Forum members, including myself, are fellow users and do not have access to Microsoft's internal systems, diagnostic tools, or the permissions required to directly investigate or resolve issues like this.

That said, I'd like to better understand the situation and hopefully help narrow down the scope of the problem.

Does Excel version 2.113.5 also fail when saving a newly created blank .xlsx workbook, or does the issue only occur with this existing .xlsm workbook?
Do you have any other iPads running Excel 2.113.5, and if so, do they experience the same saving, sharing, and SharePoint upload issues?
If you sign in with the same account on another device running 2.113.5, does the behavior follow the account or appear to be specific to certain devices?

As a quick troubleshooting step, you may want to restart one affected iPad and then uninstall and reinstall Excel before signing back in. Please ensure that any important locally stored files are backed up first, as reinstalling the app may remove locally cached data.

In the meantime, I would strongly recommend avoiding further edits to critical business files on affected devices. Based on your description, the creation of 0 KB files could potentially result in valid copies being replaced or overwritten.

Since the issue appears to affect multiple functions at once, and to potentially reach a resolution more efficiently while minimizing further disruption to your business operations, you may also wish to contact your Microsoft 365 administrator and ask them to open a support request through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center > Help & Support.

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A Microsoft support engineer, with access to diagnostic tools and permissions not available to forum members, may be able to investigate the issue in greater depth and determine whether it is related to a known issue, a service-side problem, or a recent change affecting Excel version 2.113.5.

Thank you for taking the time to read through my suggestions. If you have any updates, please feel free to leave a comment and keep me informed.

Best of luck, and I hope you're able to get this resolved soon.

Drew Daniell 0 Reputation points

2026-09-20T22:08:57.6266667+00:00

Thankyou for clarifying about the support. This issue is with the current xlsm spreadsheet. However I have tried an older xlsm spreadsheet from a a few years ago and that suffers from the same issue. I did manage to save a completely different xlsm spreadsheet related to something else locally on the iPad. It seems to be just this particular xlsm spreadsheet. We have 6 Ipads and 5 of them were updated to 2.113.5 and suffer from the issues. The 6th ipad that was not updated and still running 2.113.4 has no issues with any xlsm spreadsheets.
Aetherin 2,250 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2026-09-20T22:20:18.66+00:00

Thank you for the additional testing and for helping clarify the situation @Drew Daniell.

Based on what you've found, it does sound like there may be some compatibility issue with these .xlsm workbooks and Excel 2.113.5. Since the issue is affecting multiple devices and several functions, I'd still recommend having your Microsoft 365 administrator open a support ticket with Microsoft, as mentioned earlier.

A Microsoft support engineer may be able to investigate this more deeply and either identify the root cause, provide a workaround, or offer more specific guidance for your environment.

Thank you again for taking the time to share these findings. If you receive any updates after contacting Microsoft Support, please feel free to post them here. It may help other users who encounter the same issue.
Drew Daniell 0 Reputation points

2026-09-20T22:37:10.4266667+00:00

Thankyou for the reply, I will see what transpires with Microsoft.
Aetherin 2,250 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2026-09-20T22:57:39.5633333+00:00

I hope Microsoft is able to provide some clarity on the issue and help you reach a resolution soon. Have a great day!