topic Re: Can't read biff file error in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-t-read-biff-file-error/m-p/401024#M149223 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>For some reason Qlikview thinks this is an xls file (presumably the macros). xlsx files require Qlikview (or you) to select the Excel (xlsx) option.</P><P></P><P>Hope that helps</P><P>Jonathan</P><P></P><P>BTW, excel with macro files should be xlsm extension...</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 May 2013 13:02:23 GMT jonathandienst 2013-05-23T13:02:23Z Can't read biff file error https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-t-read-biff-file-error/m-p/401023#M149222 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All,</P><P>Please i'm trying to read excel file(.xlsx) containing macros in qlikview</P><P>but when i press table files wizard and choose this file it appears to me ''can't read biff file'</P><P>what's the problem here and how to read proteted excel file?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 May 2013 12:49:18 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-t-read-biff-file-error/m-p/401023#M149222 2013-05-23T12:49:18Z Re: Can't read biff file error https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-t-read-biff-file-error/m-p/401024#M149223 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>For some reason Qlikview thinks this is an xls file (presumably the macros). xlsx files require Qlikview (or you) to select the Excel (xlsx) option.</P><P></P><P>Hope that helps</P><P>Jonathan</P><P></P><P>BTW, excel with macro files should be xlsm extension...</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 May 2013 13:02:23 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-t-read-biff-file-error/m-p/401024#M149223 jonathandienst 2013-05-23T13:02:23Z Re: Can't read biff file error https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-t-read-biff-file-error/m-p/401025#M149224 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>see the link</P><P><A _jive_internal="true" class="loading" href="https://community.qlik.com/message/215411">http://community.qlik.com/message/215411</A></P><P><A _jive_internal="true" class="loading" href="https://community.qlik.com/message/215411">ScriptError: Cannot read BIFF file - Any ideas?</A>hope it helps </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 May 2013 13:07:15 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-t-read-biff-file-error/m-p/401025#M149224 er_mohit 2013-05-23T13:07:15Z