Excel “External table is not in the expected format.”

Question

I\'m trying to read an Excel (xlsx) file using the code shown below. I get an \"External table is not in the expected format.\" error unless I have the file already open in

Answer 1

I had this problem and changing Extended Properties to HTML Import fixed it as per this post by Marcus Miris:

strCon = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" & importedFilePathAndName _
         & ";Extended Properties=""HTML Import;HDR=No;IMEX=1"";"