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We previously had Excel 2003 and are in the process of upgrading to 2007. We are getting errors making changes to dimensions in the admin console. Whenever we try to process a dimension, we get an error that says "external table is not in the expected format". Is it possible to set up the 5.1 Admin console to work with Excel 2007?
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Blake

Dear Blake Thomas,
Of course, You could use the Ms.Excel 2007 in BPC Admin Console and BPC Excel. One thing you should to know, you should to upgrade your SAP BPC 5.1 with latest SP before. Please you download the latest SP in website SAP marketplace [http://service.sap.com/instguidesEPM-BPC] . If you have upgraded it, you will see the window of confirmation which will ask you use Ms.Excel 2003 or Ms.Excel 2007 for once
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