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Export to Excel - File Contains Apostrophes (Dynamics 2016 On Prem, Chrome)

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Posted on by ChrisDO

Hi all,

I've updated Chrome this morning to 72.0.3626.81 and now when I use Advanced Find in Dynamics 2016 On Premise (8.0.1.79), the XLSX file generated contains an apostrophe at the beginning and end, for example:

'Firm Advanced Find View.xlsx'

The file can be manually renamed and it opens properly, but I can't understand why this happens; I've tried downloading PDF and XLSX files from my email through Chrome and they don't exhibit this problem. Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers,

Chris

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  • John Hoven Profile Picture
    John Hoven 360 on at

    Hi Chris,

    I've also been investigating this issue.  I'm opening cases with Chrome and Microsoft.  My findings and workarounds are posted here:

    https://hovenj.blogspot.com/2019/02/dynamics-365-on-premises-chrome-72.html

  • ChrisDO Profile Picture
    ChrisDO on at

    Hi John,

    Many thanks for your words - I'll keep an eye on your page - interesting that it's affecting d365 as well. Just one other thing to note, we have a very new v9 on-premise install as well (9.0.2.3041) and I've just replicated the issue there as well.

  • John Hoven Profile Picture
    John Hoven 360 on at

    Chris,

    Good to know about v9.  If your team tries my work around, just be aware it has only been tested with 8.2.2/8.2.3.  I suspect it is OK on v9, but you'd want to test it at a safe time if you don't have a test/staging environment.

    Best,

    John

  • Prabhat Pandey - MSFT Profile Picture
    Prabhat Pandey - MSFT 125 on at

    It's due to one of recent Chrome72 update . More detail here - community.dynamics.com/.../309399

  • Jetj25 Profile Picture
    Jetj25 534 on at

    We have the same problem 

    Onpremise 2011 

    Chrome74

  • ChrisDO Profile Picture
    ChrisDO on at

    Hi Jetj25,

    Many thanks for your update - in the end I just set my machine to open xlsx' and xml' files with Excel and Notepad++ respectively by using the 'Open With' option in Windows - Excel produces an error message but I found it quicker than renaming the file each time. We'll shortly be moving to v9 on premise - I'll need to test that this has been fixed in the most recent stable build but fingers crossed.

    Given your version of CRM I'd propose using the same workaround to associate such files with the relevant application.

    Cheers,

    Chris

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