# Link with Excel-fles as automatic explanation

**URL:** <https://community.silverfin.com/t/link-with-excel-fles-as-automatic-explanation/917>\
**Category:** Templates\
**Tags:** platform\
**Created:** [May 23, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/link-with-excel-fles-as-automatic-explanation/917 "2018-05-23T12:12:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Coene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Coene](https://community.silverfin.com/u/Coene)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/link-with-excel-fles-as-automatic-explanation/917/1 "2018-05-23T12:12:24Z")

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Hello,  
I see there is a possibility to link excel files in an explanation of an account. Somehow it doesn’t work for me. Is there a handle how the excel file have to look like, so would work?

best regards  
Pascal Coene

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**Author:** ![SamVanEenoo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.silverfin.com/samvaneenoo/32/134_2.png) [@SamVanEenoo](https://community.silverfin.com/u/SamVanEenoo)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/link-with-excel-fles-as-automatic-explanation/917/2 "2018-05-23T12:33:40Z")

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Hi @Coene

What do you mean with doesn’t work?  
Does it mean that you can’t upload it or something else?

Kind regards  
Sam

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**Author:** ![Coene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Coene](https://community.silverfin.com/u/Coene)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/link-with-excel-fles-as-automatic-explanation/917/3 "2018-05-23T12:53:52Z")

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I can upload the document, but I get this message when I am trying to save: ‘Something went wrong: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8’

In my reconcilliation, I have two fields:

**Reconciliation Field**** Source Field**  
Short description don’t use (I can’t change this)  
Value don’t use (I can’t change this)

I think my Excel file is wrong somehow. Do you have instructions how the Excel file has to look like.

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**Author:** ![SamVanEenoo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.silverfin.com/samvaneenoo/32/134_2.png) [@SamVanEenoo](https://community.silverfin.com/u/SamVanEenoo)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/link-with-excel-fles-as-automatic-explanation/917/4 "2018-05-23T13:03:20Z")

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Hi @Coene

The best thing you could do is contact our support through chat. They will be able to help you further.

Kind regards  
Sam