Excel power query can not read the file

Product:

Microsoft Excel 365 32 bit version

Microsoft Windows 11

Issue:

Inside a excel report, you have a power query that get data from a other excel file on sharepoint.

When you do refresh to update you get a error.

 

 

Possible cause:

The Excel file have to many rows.

When using Excel, it’s important to note which file format you’re using. The .xls file format has a limit of 65,536 rows in each sheet, while the .xlsx file format has a limit of 1,048,576 rows per sheet. For more info, see File formats that are supported in Excel and Excel specifications and limits.

If you load a csv file, you may only get a part of the rows of data. And the sum result may not be what you expect, if you reach a limit in excel program.

 

More Information:

The Excel Row Limit is 1,048,576 Rows | Row Zero

Loading CSV/text files with more than a million rows into Excel – Jose Barreto’s Blog

https://flatfile.com/blog/top-6-csv-import-errors-and-how-to-fix-them/ 

https://flatfile.com/blog/why-isnt-my-csv-file-importing/