I frequently have to export data from a SharePoint list to Excel but earlier today I found it no longer works since I’ve upgraded to Office 2010.  Our SharePoint infrastructure is based on SharePoint 2007 and each time I attempted to Export to Spreadsheet from the Actions menu on the Toolbar, Excel would hang.

Luckily, I found Gustaf Lindqvist’s post on synchronising data between Excel 2010 and a SharePoint 2007 list. He suggests installing the 2007 Office System Driver Data Connectivity Components (I wasn’t getting an error message to help me find the problem – just a “Not Responding” application and the “doughnut of death”.

It’s still a bit flaky – and I’m not sure I have the complete answer (in fact, I suspect there may even be issues with some of the views in SharePoint) – but at least I can export data now…