Error When Importing Excel Data
1. If you receive "Workstation has encountered an unknown error" then you are using an outdated version of the software: How to Update Brady Workstation
Workaround for older versions of BWS: If you are attempting to import an Excel file with only 1 line of text, make sure "use first row as header" is not selected.
2. Workaround for recent versions of Brady Workstation: If you receive an error "something unexpected has happened" when attempting to import a spreadsheet with a single row of data, then add a blank row to your spreadsheet and check "use first row as header".
- Note: Excel import is best used when multiple labels with varying information need to be created from information in a database. Importing a spreadsheet with a single row of data has very limited use cases, if any. If would be quicker to simply type the information manually.
3. If your Excel spreadsheet is on a shared network drive, copy the Excel document to your local drive and import using the local copy.
