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Excel integration

What is Excel?

Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software developed by Microsoft that allows users to organize, analyze, and visualize data. It provides powerful tools for calculations, data modeling, and automation, making it an essential tool for businesses managing financial reports, inventory, and large datasets. Excel files can be used for data storage, collaboration, and integration with other platforms.

How to use Parabola's Excel File integration

Parabola's Excel File integration enables businesses to automate data processing and enhance workflow efficiency.

Learn more about Parabola’s Excel File integration below.

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Use Excel file

The Use Excel file step enables you to pull in tabular data from an Excel file.

Custom settings

First, select Click to upload a file.

If your Excel file has multiple sheets, select which one you'd like to use in the dropdown menu for Sheet.

In the Advanced Settings, you may also select to skip rows or columns. This will skip rows from top-down and columns from left-to-right.

Formatted data

Cell data is imported as formatted values from Excel. Dates, numbers, and currencies will be represented as they appear in the Excel workbook, as opposed to their true underlying value.

Enabling unformatted values will import the underlying data from Excel. Most notably, this will show raw numbers without any rounding applied, and will convert dates to Excel's native date format (the number of days since 1900-01-01).

Helpful tips

Limitations

This step can't pull in file updates from your computer, so if you make dataset changes and wish to bring them into Parabola, this requires manually uploading the updated Excel file. When you upload an Excel file, all formulas are converted to their value, and formatting is stripped (formatting or formulas are not preserved).

Security

The files you upload through this step are stored by Parabola. We store the data as a convenience, so that the next time you open the flow, the data is still loaded into it. Your data is stored securely in an Amazon S3 Bucket, and all connections are established over SSL and encrypted.