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I have an excel file I'm trying to use in a merge in Word. This error appears??
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As a workaround you can try exporting the data from Excel to .csv format
or Edit-Copy, Edit-Paste to a new Word document and use that as the
data source.

Otherwise,
a. which version of Word/Excel?
b. the most likely reason for this error is that the file is not
actually an Excel workbook, but has a .xls extension. For example, it
might be an HTML table with a file extension of .xls instead of .htm or
..html - particularly if the file has been exported from someone else's
system.

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I have an excel file I'm trying to use in a merge in Word. This error appears??

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