Currently Microsoft gives an error when trying to export data to excel from an unrelated column in a view.

An error has occurred. {1}{0}

Error code: 0x80040216

Session Id: 81c803f1-9f5d-4948-b6f0-72ab00fb5666

Activity Id: 694c956f-21e7-4642-a094-884b7664f0ce

Ideal solution would be to enable this behavior.