diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 39d806c1dcd4abca6f6f2d756d7b9f1e41c4ba95..3f2bb4ff4aee373b2ded8d1f309b5fb5347f1e3c 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ def setup_package():
         install_requires=["caosdb>=0.7.0",
                           "jsonschema>=4.4.0",
                           "numpy>=1.17.3",
-                          "openpyxl>=3.0.0",
+                          "openpyxl>=3.0.7",
                           "pandas>=1.2.0",
                           "xlrd>=2.0",
                           ],