Reword whatsnew message for the benefit of end users.

pandas-dev · Aug 26, 2020 · 081ecf8 · 081ecf8
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@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ Deprecations
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 - Deprecated parameter ``inplace`` in :meth:`MultiIndex.set_codes` and :meth:`MultiIndex.set_levels` (:issue:`35626`)
 - Deprecated parameter ``dtype`` in :~meth:`Index.copy` on method all index classes. Use the :meth:`Index.astype` method instead for changing dtype(:issue:`35853`)
-- :func:`read_excel` "xlrd" engine is deprecated for all file types that can be handled by "openpyxl" because "xlrd" is no longer maintained (:issue:`28547`).
+- :func:`read_excel` "xlrd" engine is deprecated. The recommended engine is "openpyxl" for "xlsx" and "xlsm" files, because "xlrd" is no longer maintained (:issue:`28547`).
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