In Excel, select File - Save as, and then the proper file format. Or use File - Export.
9.0 is really very old and lacks any support for the newer xlsx format. The simplest ways is to save the Excel data as csv and import that with a data step.
Just renaming the file does nothing to change its contents and format. Save as csv from Excel.
In Excel, select File - Save as, and then the proper file format. Or use File - Export.
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