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Asked: 2026-05-22T00:08:26+00:00

I’m trying to read, clone and write and .xlsm file with PHPExcel but I

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I’m trying to read, clone and write and .xlsm file with PHPExcel but I get an error:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘Worksheet!G177 -> Formula Error: An unexpected error occured’ in…

Anybody know how can I read, clone and write and Excel file with macros, I mean the macros are in a template (the file that I reading) I just want to clone that file and write on it, and just keep the macros in the new file. Is that possible with PHPExcel ? is there another library to do that ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    First:

    • PHPExcel does not support reading Excel macro (.xlsm) files.

    Second:

    • it doesn’t support macros.

    And I’m not aware of any PHP libraries that support this.

    The only way that I know for certain that you could do this would be using PHPs COM extension, on a server with MS Excel itself installed.

    The only alternative to COM that may work would be Ilia Alshanetsky’s Excel extension

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