Hi all,
I am trying to create a Sharepoint list from a previous Excel file and I would like to use a lookup column, to allow users to pick values of “column B” from “column A”.
The values are already entered in "column A", so now I would like to edit the list in datasheet view and copy/paste the values from my excel file into my “column B”.
It works well when I copy/paste only one data, but when I try to paste several values in the same row (using a semicolon as delimiter), I get the error message “Cannot paste the copied data due to data types mismatches or invalid data.”, although
the column is set to allow multiple values.
I noticed that lookup columns allowing mulitple values store items with the item ID, as follows: ITEM NAME;#ITEM ID, but don’t display it in datasheet view or standard view, and I guess this is why I can’t copy and paste the data from my excel file
since they don’t have the ID encoded, but is it possible to do it anyway?
Thanks for your help.
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