Error when trying to place information from xlsx file into InDesign CS5

[foolishmime]

I have been working on a publication for a local non-profit in my town. Part of that is that I need to place information from an excel spreadsheet into the publication. I am using Adobe InDesign CS5 and working on a macOS Sierra computer, and I keep getting a "Cannot place this file. No filter found for requested operation." dialogue box when I am trying to place the information from the .xlsx file.

This isn't too dire for me right now, it will be in a month or so when I really start having to place the information that I need. I thought I would look up some tutorials on how to import excel sheets into InDesign to learn what I am doing before things really kick-off. This problem keeps persisting for me, and so far for bug fixes I most of what I have found is that this has been a problem with the current version CC and the answers for those have been "update". However, I don't have the luxury to update my CS5 version. I don't know how to troubleshoot this problem since I have never run into it before.

Any advice or answers that the community might have is appreciated, thanks in advance!

(Images of the macOS I am currently running, and the error dialogue, incase that helps anyone)

[Geоrge]

Check all words in path and name of file. You're need to have only "latin" characters. 

[winterm]

Didn't you try to save your Excel file to older xls format, and place to iD that?

[foolishmime]

Sorry, this has taken me a little time to get back too, but I have tried both making sure that all files and paths to the file have "Latin" characters, and I have tried a down save of the .xls file. Unfortunately, neither of these suggestions are working for importing spreadsheet information.

I hope that I will be able to find a solution soon, and thank you for the suggestions so far!