Excel 2013 - 1004 runtime error Refresh Query Table BackgroundQuery:=False

Question

I have run into an issue with Excel 2013 when refreshing a QueryTable with BackGroundQuery set to False (BackgroundQuery has to be set to false for our purposes). When a que

Answer 1

Thank you all for the feedback and ideas. We found a work around that is fairly low impact for us.

We found that this issue was only present in Excel 2013 on Query Tables that have filters applied to them before the QueryTable was refreshed.

Our work around simply removed filtering from the sheet that has the QueryTable calling refresh with BackgroundQuery set to false then applying filters to our external data range.

Example:

    Sheet3.AutoFilterMode = False
    Sheet3.QueryTables(1).Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
    Sheet3.Range("ExternalData_3").AutoFilter

This solution works for our needs and I hope anyone else who runs into this issue finds this work around useful.