diff --git a/ci/requirements-2.7.txt b/ci/requirements-2.7.txt
index fe27fe10f7c04..d5803441c2d5d 100644
--- a/ci/requirements-2.7.txt
+++ b/ci/requirements-2.7.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ bottleneck==0.6.0
 numexpr==2.1
 tables==2.3.1
 matplotlib==1.1.1
-openpyxl==1.6.2
+openpyxl==2.4.2
 xlsxwriter==0.4.3
 xlrd==0.9.2
 patsy==0.1.0
diff --git a/ci/requirements-2.7_LOCALE.txt b/ci/requirements-2.7_LOCALE.txt
index f037cbed15160..5bd63bfcecc8b 100644
--- a/ci/requirements-2.7_LOCALE.txt
+++ b/ci/requirements-2.7_LOCALE.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 python-dateutil
 pytz==2013b
 xlwt==0.7.5
-openpyxl==1.6.2
+openpyxl==2.4.2
 xlsxwriter==0.4.3
 xlrd==0.9.2
 numpy==1.6.1
diff --git a/ci/requirements-3.2.txt b/ci/requirements-3.2.txt
index b44a708c4fffc..5de34addde834 100644
--- a/ci/requirements-3.2.txt
+++ b/ci/requirements-3.2.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 python-dateutil==2.1
 pytz==2013b
-openpyxl==1.6.2
+openpyxl==2.4.2
 xlsxwriter==0.4.3
 xlrd==0.9.2
 numpy==1.6.2
diff --git a/ci/requirements-3.3.txt b/ci/requirements-3.3.txt
index 318030e733158..f8c5e406e7db5 100644
--- a/ci/requirements-3.3.txt
+++ b/ci/requirements-3.3.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 python-dateutil==2.1
 pytz==2013b
-openpyxl==1.6.2
+openpyxl==2.4.2
 xlsxwriter==0.4.3
 xlrd==0.9.2
 html5lib==1.0b2