https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Manually-importing-Excel-file-Why-are-the-field-value-and-event/m-p/372802#M6107 <P>Splunk doesnt support xls formatting as its a proprietary binary (Microsoft) format. If you want to load this in Splunk, save it as a CSV file and upload it into Splunk.</P> <P>more on this - <A href="https://www.splunk.com/blog/2015/01/30/working-with-spreadsheets-in-splunk-excel-csv-files.html">https://www.splunk.com/blog/2015/01/30/working-with-spreadsheets-in-splunk-excel-csv-files.html</A></P> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:30:46 GMT inventsekar 2017-10-03T10:30:46Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Manually-importing-Excel-file-Why-are-the-field-value-and-event/m-p/372801#M6106 <P>I am indexing reports as an Excel file, but after indexing I am getting field value for tag as error also event type as error. Can somebody please help me as the TA is not working and we are manually ingesting the Excel file.</P> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:26:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Manually-importing-Excel-file-Why-are-the-field-value-and-event/m-p/372801#M6106 diptendu 2017-10-03T10:26:48Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Manually-importing-Excel-file-Why-are-the-field-value-and-event/m-p/372802#M6107 <P>Splunk doesnt support xls formatting as its a proprietary binary (Microsoft) format. If you want to load this in Splunk, save it as a CSV file and upload it into Splunk.</P> <P>more on this - <A href="https://www.splunk.com/blog/2015/01/30/working-with-spreadsheets-in-splunk-excel-csv-files.html">https://www.splunk.com/blog/2015/01/30/working-with-spreadsheets-in-splunk-excel-csv-files.html</A></P> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:30:46 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Manually-importing-Excel-file-Why-are-the-field-value-and-event/m-p/372802#M6107 inventsekar 2017-10-03T10:30:46Z