Error with Open Strict Xml Spreadsheet in Dataflow

I have a data source in the format of Open Strict Xml Spreadsheet which is very similar to an Excel file and ends with .xlsx. When I import this file on Power BI Desktop, it just opens like Excel. Ho...

Data Modeling

Ehren

Microsoft Employee

4 years ago

Hi Anonymous. It turns out that Strict Open XML spreadsheets require the ACE driver, which means they can only be refreshed via a gateway. I've added some documentation about this to the Excel connector page.

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