Sheet Export to Excel has 1 Blank Row in the middle

Ryan Levitz
Ryan Levitz ✭✭
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Hi there,

I'm stumped on this one. I have a basic Sheet with 1944 rows. There are no blank rows. When I do a basic export to excel, one blank row gets inserted at row 1758 of the excel file. The excel file has 1946 rows (1 is blank and 1 is the header) so no info is missing. I can't see anything in the smartsheet rows that would be causing a blank. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

It's easy enough to go into the Excel file each time and remove a row, but it's broken my automations (sort and filter in excel breaks due the blank row).

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  • Genevieve P.
    Genevieve P. Employee Admin
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    Hey@Ryan Levitz

    Is it possible that there is indeed a blank row in your Smartsheet sheet at row 1756? I would try applying a filter to the Sheet if a specific cell is blank to see what comes up.

    I will note that the fact that the row doesn't have a Date from your System column is very odd - it means this row doesn't have any data at all.

    Once you apply a filter to show all blank rows, I'd suggestdeletingthe first 5 rows in case one of them is in the middle of your other data. Then try exporting again!

    Cheers,

    Genevieve

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  • Genevieve P.
    Genevieve P. Employee Admin
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    Hey@Ryan Levitz

    Is it possible that there is indeed a blank row in your Smartsheet sheet at row 1756? I would try applying a filter to the Sheet if a specific cell is blank to see what comes up.

    I will note that the fact that the row doesn't have a Date from your System column is very odd - it means this row doesn't have any data at all.

    Once you apply a filter to show all blank rows, I'd suggestdeletingthe first 5 rows in case one of them is in the middle of your other data. Then try exporting again!

    Cheers,

    Genevieve

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  • Ryan Levitz
    Ryan Levitz ✭✭

    Very strange. Filtering for blanks showed 10 rows, 1952-1961. I deleted the first 5 of those. Exported it and it all looks great. I appreciate the help!

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    Genevieve P. Employee Admin

    No problem! This was definitely a strange one

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This is an easy fix - you have some brackets in the wrong place which is causing the IF statements to not be nested properly. When combining the individual IFs, the closing brackets should end up at the end of the combined statement, with a comma separating to make the false part of the IF statement, like so:<\/p>

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Hey @Draykov<\/a>. Looks like it's just placement of parentheses! Try the below<\/p>

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