https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Are-Excel-files-supported-by-Splunk/m-p/357354#M65266 <P>Yes. It looks like your file is binary. Do you have any formatting or bold in the file?</P> <P>It should be a simple excel file without any formatting </P> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:08:30 GMT skoelpin 2018-03-16T16:08:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Are-Excel-files-supported-by-Splunk/m-p/357353#M65265 <P>Are Excel files supported by Splunk?</P> <P>We uploaded via the forwarder a file and it doesn't look pleasant ; -)</P> <PRE><CODE>$ tail NewExcelFile.xls TGý Tpý Tqý Tp¾ Tý T.ý ,ý T 9×.N </CODE></PRE> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:05:02 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Are-Excel-files-supported-by-Splunk/m-p/357353#M65265 ddrillic 2018-03-16T16:05:02Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Are-Excel-files-supported-by-Splunk/m-p/357354#M65266 <P>Yes. It looks like your file is binary. Do you have any formatting or bold in the file?</P> <P>It should be a simple excel file without any formatting </P> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:08:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Are-Excel-files-supported-by-Splunk/m-p/357354#M65266 skoelpin 2018-03-16T16:08:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Are-Excel-files-supported-by-Splunk/m-p/357355#M65267 <P>Interesting - let me check... </P> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:54:22 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Are-Excel-files-supported-by-Splunk/m-p/357355#M65267 ddrillic 2018-03-16T16:54:22Z