Cannot place this file. No filter found for this operation

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January 26, 2024
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I've tried to import the .xlsx file to Indesign but it says "Cannot place this file. No filter found for this operation". This problem came when I saved this file with WPS Office, but with Microsoft Excel it's fine.

Do any suggestions for a WPS office user so I can use it with Adobe Indesign?

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BobLevine

Community Expert

You have to save the file with Excel.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Are you saying that WPS Office doesn't save a compatible .xlx or .xlsx file and only excel can be used?

BobLevine

Community Expert

Fake Excel files have been an issue forever. They're simply not 100% compatible.

The fix is to open them in Excel and resave them so no, you don't have to use Excel to create them but you do have to use Excel to save them. That said, I'm sure a very simple XLS/XLXS file might work and it certainly doesn't hurt to try, but for better or worse, these 3rd party apps don't work well enough to depend on them exclusively.

This includes Google Sheets and Numbers.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

You have to use a compatible file type. Maybe that WPS can export in some text based file type, csv or tab separated text.

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luthfig89830620Author

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but in indesign can only import .xlsx file

Peter Spier

Community Expert

It sounds like some identifier info is missing from the header data of your exported file, and that's probably a problem with the WPS Office software.

What other options for saving besides .xlsx do you have? InDesign can import a large variety of tabular text formats.

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