Title: OLE error
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# OLE error

 *  Resolved [SirClive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirclive/)
 * (@sirclive)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ole-error/)
 * Everytime I try to import a .xls table to tablepress I am getting a blank page
   with ‘OLE error’.
 * Do you know what is causing this? The tables I am trying to import are the same
   as ones I have successfully imported before.
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ole-error/#post-6557445)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * I can only assume that the Excel import library (which is still experimental 
   and only understand basic stuff from the proprietory Excel file format) does 
   not like something here.
    To work around this, please save the table to a CSV
   file in Excel and import that.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [SirClive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirclive/)
 * (@sirclive)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ole-error/#post-6557553)
 * Thanks for the quick reply. Looks like there was something wrong with the spreadsheets.
   CSV didn’t work either, but when I copied the data and pasted to a new workbook
   they worked fine.
 * Cheers 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ole-error/#post-6557556)
 * Hi,
 * great! Good to hear that you were able to make it work!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ole-error/#post-6557556)
 * Status: resolved