# ExcelReaders issue never happened before

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/excelreaders-issue-never-happened-before/24880>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [June 3, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/excelreaders-issue-never-happened-before/24880 "2019-06-03T09:51:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![juliauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@juliauser](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliauser)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/excelreaders-issue-never-happened-before/24880/1 "2019-06-03T09:51:12Z")

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Hi,

I have used ExcelReaders.jl for a while without any problem. Few days ago it started showing the error “key open\_workbook not found”. I have always read files using readxlsheet(“data.xls”,“Sheet1”)

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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/excelreaders-issue-never-happened-before/24880/2 "2019-06-03T13:40:08Z")

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It’s very hard to help you with so little information to go on. In particular, please at the very least include the _complete_ error message, and perhaps also take a look at [Please read: make it easier to help you](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757)

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**Author:** ![juliauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@juliauser](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliauser)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/excelreaders-issue-never-happened-before/24880/3 "2019-06-03T15:21:03Z")

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Thank you. Here is what I do.

```julia
using ExcelReaders 
readxlsheet("data.xls","Sheet1")

```

And this is the error

`key "open_workbook" not found`

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/excelreaders-issue-never-happened-before/24880/4 "2019-06-03T21:04:02Z")

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Could post the versions of the packages you are using? And maybe try to update all packages once?

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**Author:** ![juliauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@juliauser](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliauser)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/excelreaders-issue-never-happened-before/24880/5 "2019-06-03T22:55:17Z")

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Updated all packages and still have the same issue. Here is the list of packages and versions

```julia
  [c52e3926] Atom v0.8.5
  [336ed68f] CSV v0.4.3
  [49dc2e85] Calculus v0.4.1
  [a93c6f00] DataFrames v0.18.1
  [31c24e10] Distributions v0.19.2
  [89b67f3b] ExcelFiles v0.9.1
  [c04bee98] ExcelReaders v0.11.0
  [442a2c76] FastGaussQuadrature v0.3.3
  [5789e2e9] FileIO v1.0.6
  [7073ff75] IJulia v1.18.1
  [a98d9a8b] Interpolations v0.11.2
  [e5e0dc1b] Juno v0.7.0
  [b964fa9f] LaTeXStrings v1.0.3
  [2774e3e8] NLsolve v4.0.0
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v0.24.0
  [438e738f] PyCall v1.91.2
  [d330b81b] PyPlot v2.8.1
  [ce6b1742] RDatasets v0.6.1
  [f2b01f46] Roots v0.8.1
  [2913bbd2] StatsBase v0.30.0
  [61d0e4fa] Taro v0.7.0
  [fdbf4ff8] XLSX v0.4.7
  [37e2e46d] LinearAlgebra 
  [9a3f8284] Random 
  [10745b16] Statistics 

```

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/excelreaders-issue-never-happened-before/24880/6 "2019-06-04T02:18:38Z")

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Hm, not sure what is going on… I suspect something is broken with the underlying Python installation, but not sure how to diagnose or fix that…