Trouble importing data from Excel 'macro enabled' file (.xlsm)

[glenncogar]

Hi, I am hoping someone has had this problem and can help with a solution

One of my Power BI users is trying to import data from a 'macro enabled' Excel file (.xlsm) and Power BI does not see the file as a valid Excel file.

This article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-get-data on Microsoft's web site says that .xlsm files are valid for Power BI to import data from but I'm having no success. 

We are using Office 2013 and I am wondering if this will only work with Excel 2016 and higher?

Below is the error I am getting.

Anyone have any ideas on what's going wrong and how to fix?

[Hardik · Accepted solution]

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

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/The-input-couldn-t-be-recognized-as-a-valid-Excel-document/i...

Hope these help

[glenncogar]

Thank you so much, the active hyperlinks were the problem!

I just selected all cells, right clicked, removed all hyperlinks, saved the file and then Power BI could read the data 🙂

p.s. Microsoft Power BI team, I think this needs to be fixed.  Power BI happily reads web pages and they contain hyperlinks.  Maybe allow an option to ignore hyperlinks in Excel files.