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NH
Advocate II
8 years ago
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Aug 2018 Desktop version unable to recognize Excel file

Has anyone  encountered issue with Aug 2018 Desktop version that unable to recognize the excel file? After I update to the Aug 2018 Desktop and I've encoutered one of my current Pbix file unable to ...
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v-piga-msft
Resident Rockstar
8 years ago

Hi NH,

 

It seems that you only have this issue for the specific excel data source?

 

I haven't encountered issue as yours until now.

 

If it is convenient, could you share the specific excel sheet so that I could make a test.

 

In addition, you could have a reference of these similar threads.

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Integrations-with-Files-and/The-input-couldn-t-be-recognized-as-a-valid-Excel-document/td-p/75328

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/The-input-couldn-t-be-recognized-as-a-valid-Excel-document/idi-p/113771/page/2

 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/BI-and-Data-Analysis/quot-The-input-couldn-t-be-recognized-as-a-valid-Excel-document/td-p/50475

 

Best Regards,

Cherry

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NH
Advocate II
8 years ago

Hi Cherry,

 

Thanks for you replied. Sorry I'm not able to share the source file. But I went to read out the below link regard to hyperlink in Excel file may cause BI unable to open the excel file issue. And I go ahead to remove the hyperlink in the excel file and it manage to resolve the issue. But I'm not able to duplicate the problem by adding back the hyperlink in the Exce file. Strange.

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Integrations-with-Files-and/The-input-couldn-t-be-recognized-as-a-v...

 

Thank you.