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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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JasperD
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

I have the same problem. At least since the August update a PBI file with an excel file on sharepoint as datasource can't be refreshed in PBI Desktop (with the same error message). The refresh in the power bi service does work though.. Do you have an update on the issue?

 

Thanks! Jasper