I am getting an error while opening an excel file:

"The following features are not supported in the browser and might not display or might display only partially: 
Comments, Shapes, or other objects 
Some features, such as external data queries, display cached data which can only be refreshed in the client version of Excel."

Is this issue browser related or SharePoint related?

Hiya,

it depends what that file contains. There are a lot of new features for Excel, Excel services in the newer versions of SharePoint and SQL server. So it really depends on which of these features your using in your excel file.

What version is your SharePoint and SQL server(database services) and SQL Reporting?

There is a pretty specific article for that error message relating to PowerPivot.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff487973.aspx

And some additional information on Excel services

http://blogs.office.com/2005/12/01/excel-services-part-12-unsupported-features/

• Edited by Jesper Arnecke Friday, February 13, 2015 10:00 AM

Hiya,

it depends what that file contains. There are a lot of new features for Excel, Excel services in the newer versions of SharePoint and SQL server. So it really depends on which of these features your using in your excel file.

What version is your SharePoint and SQL server(database services) and SQL Reporting?

There is a pretty specific article for that error message relating to PowerPivot.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff487973.aspx

And some additional information on Excel services

http://blogs.office.com/2005/12/01/excel-services-part-12-unsupported-features/

• Edited by Jesper Arnecke Friday, February 13, 2015 10:00 AM

I am getting this error while using PowerView reports. 

I am trying to open the excel in IE browser (from SharePoint 2010)

What version of SQL have you installed? (Reporting Services) - not that database services.

• Edited by Jesper Arnecke 3 hours 25 minutes ago

What version of SQL have you installed? (Reporting Services) - not that database services.

• Edited by Jesper Arnecke Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:36 AM

There is no connection to db, data is in excel sheet cells itself.