That sounds very strange - could you share the test file (ideally publicly, but at least by private email)? Modern MS files do use XML but I don't understand how it would be recognised as BLAST XML...

It may also be useful to see your Galaxy data types configuration file.

Peter

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 01:39, D K <danielfortin86@gmail.com> wrote:
It looks like uploading 'xlsx' data through 'Get Data' is not working. When I try this on my local Galaxy (v18.05) and on usegalaxy.org it gets automatically converted to 'BLAST xml' when using Automatic Detection. If I select 'xlsx' during uploading I get the error message ( Warning: The file 'Type' was set to 'xlsx' but the file does not appear to be of that type  )
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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