Excel 2016 incompatible

Question

Hello, 
 I downloaded Office Business 2016 and I'm having trouble uploading Excel files to Studio 2014. I read many threads saying that you need to download Studio 2015 in order to use Office 2016. However, Word 2016 is compatible as long as a change .docx into .doc. Why isn't Excel also compatible when I change the files from .xls and .xlsx? Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? 
 Thanks for your help. 
 Julia

Lydia Simplicio · Answer

Hi Julia,

Re-saving the word files as doc. was simply a workaround and not meant as a long time solution.
SDL resolved this compatibility issue with the release of Studio 2015 (which you have already seen in various other posts I believe).
Therefore the only way to use fully use Office 2016 would be to upgrade to Studio 2017 (if you do not have 2015 in your account).
SDL will not be releasing an Office 2016/Studio 2014 compatibility update as far as i'm aware, as official support for Studio 2014 will be retired at the end of June this year.

Kr

Steve

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Paul · Answer

Hi Artem Sedov , 
 
I'd check a couple of things: 
 
1. Make sure you are not using project templates from your old version in Studio 2017 
2. Run a repair of Studio 
 
Studio has no problems with opening Office 365 files at all... you are confusing problems with preview in earlier versions and this is unrelated to the translation of the files. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Unknown said: Question 1: Can I disable Excel 2007 v 2.0.0.0 filter altogether? 
 This can only be achieved in your project templates. Also make sure you do this in your Global Settings ( File -> Options as opposed to Project Settings ) so that new project templates you create based on new projects you have created are using your preferred setting by default. 
 Unknown said: Question 2: How does SpreadsheetML v. 1 filter handle rows and columns order? In the legacy filter there is a setting to choose translation order, but not in the SpreadsheetML v. 1... 
 Top left to bottom right, unless it's a Bi-Di language in which case it's top right to bottom left.

Paul · Answer

Eventually it will supersede the old one, but until we are 100% confident we are not missing anything important we have left it there. You have already identified one possible advantage in being able to configure the parsing options... maybe there are others. We're hoping for feedback from our customers in the community and this may help shape the options for the new one and also determine when we decide to remove the old one altogether. Is it safe? It can't hurt and you won't break anything. But there is always the possibility you'll find an excel file that won't process in the new one but will in the old. We'll obviously fix the new one when we learn of these things... but good to have the backup of the older more seasoned version. Does that answer your question? Regards

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Excel 2016 incompatible