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Microsoft Excel

Read and write data with sheet selection

Microsoft Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet tool for organizing, analyzing, and visualizing data. The Microsoft Excel integration enables you to programmatically read from and write to Excel workbooks as part of your automation workflows, with easy selection of sheets and cell ranges.

With Microsoft Excel integration, you can:

  • Read data from specific sheets: Extract table data, lists, records, or custom ranges from any sheet in your Excel files for use in downstream workflow steps.
  • Write and update data: Programmatically update cells, insert new rows, or modify existing records in chosen sheets, without ever opening the file manually.
  • Select cell ranges: Specify exact ranges (e.g., A1:D10) to target for read and write operations, allowing fine-grained data manipulation.
  • Automate calculations and reporting: Pull in live data, perform calculations, and produce custom Excel reports automatically.
  • Centralize spreadsheet tasks: Remove manual copy-pasting—the workflow can update Excel files, capture new submissions, or sync data between systems.
  • Integrate seamlessly with Microsoft 365: Access and modify cloud-hosted spreadsheets, whether for finance, sales, operations, or analytics.

Excel’s integration empowers every type of user—from analysts to managers—to automate their data collection, enrich reporting, trigger actions from sheet updates, and keep important data always up-to-date.

Connect Microsoft Excel to your automations to streamline data management, reporting, and collaboration within your workflows.

Usage Instructions

Integrate Microsoft Excel into the workflow with explicit sheet selection. Can read and write data in specific sheets.

Tools

microsoft_excel_read

Read data from a specific sheet in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet

Input

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
spreadsheetIdstringYesThe ID of the spreadsheet to read from
sheetNamestringYesThe name of the sheet/tab to read from
cellRangestringNoThe cell range to read (e.g., "A1:D10"). If not specified, reads the entire used range.

Output

ParameterTypeDescription
sheetNamestringName of the sheet that was read
rangestringThe range that was read
valuesarrayArray of rows containing cell values
metadatajsonSpreadsheet metadata including ID and URL
spreadsheetIdstringMicrosoft Excel spreadsheet ID
spreadsheetUrlstringSpreadsheet URL

microsoft_excel_write

Write data to a specific sheet in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet

Input

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
spreadsheetIdstringYesThe ID of the spreadsheet to write to
sheetNamestringYesThe name of the sheet/tab to write to
cellRangestringNoThe cell range to write to (e.g., "A1:D10", "A1"). Defaults to "A1" if not specified.
valuesarrayYesThe data to write as a 2D array (e.g. [["Name", "Age"], ["Alice", 30], ["Bob", 25]]) or array of objects.
valueInputOptionstringNoThe format of the data to write
includeValuesInResponsebooleanNoWhether to include the written values in the response

Output

ParameterTypeDescription
updatedRangestringRange of cells that were updated
updatedRowsnumberNumber of rows updated
updatedColumnsnumberNumber of columns updated
updatedCellsnumberNumber of cells updated
metadatajsonSpreadsheet metadata including ID and URL
spreadsheetIdstringMicrosoft Excel spreadsheet ID
spreadsheetUrlstringSpreadsheet URL
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