Unable to load excel to read test input data

[amritathakur]

Hi, 

I'm very new to test complete. As part of my test scenario, I'm trying to open an excel and iterate over various columns in in form of a while loop. While creating test data, I read somewhere we don't need to have MS excel to be able to do it but I'm getting this exception below. To provide more background, I'm doing this on a virtual machine where there is no MS Excel installed. The excel file is valid. 

 

[Marsha_R · Accepted solution]

See the last part of the error message that starts "To read data"?   You need to follow those instructions to resolve that exception.