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why won't bom export to excel???
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why won't bom export to excel???

why won't bom export to excel???

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Major frustration - when i go to export a bom to excel i get error dialog that says: "couldn't create database--exception: unable to append data to file."
Does anyone know why this happens?

RE: why won't bom export to excel???

Version of INV, version of excel?

have you run excel already after installing Inventor? (like in the case of a new computer,etc..)

restarted computer lately?

RE: why won't bom export to excel???

My default export option is to an Access database file (.mdb), so I change it to export to an Excel file instead.  Maybe that's happening to you?

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