Error while importing excel data

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elizabeth.l asked Oct 04 2017 at 9:06 PM elizabeth.l answered Oct 05 2017 at 2:20 PM

Error while importing excel data

What does this message signify? "Error updating cached Excel Data". After I press OK, I get "Sheet name does not exist in file" I know it's not actually a problem with the sheet name because if I delete enough columns eventually the import starts working. Unfortunately, I can't share the excel file.

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FlexSim 17.0.7

excel import

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Answer 1 · 2017-10-05T14:20:55Z

elizabeth.l answered Oct 05 2017 at 2:20 PM

So I tried quite a few things trying to narrow down the problem. I was unable to recreate the error with a fresh excel document with dummy data. I noticed that the file was bigger that I thought it should be. I goggled the potential reasons for this and found it could be the formatting.

I cleared the formatting from the empty cells of the sheet and just like that, the file size decreased dramatically and the import started to work.

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