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Microsoft Excel worksheet not shown

  • 18 March 2024
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Good morning guys,


I can’t get around this one on my own and unfortunately the AI chatbot can’t either.

I want to do something pretty basic: get a notion table updating an excel table. Every time I enter a line in my notion table, I want this to feed my excel one.

  • Notion part: no problem.
  • Excel part: it goes well until the worksheet. No worksheet is found (see below)

 

I am pretty sure there are thousands of post out there and some are surely spot on, but none of the ones I put my hands so far, turned to be helpful. So if there is anything you see as a match, feel free to share.

 

Here is what you need to know:

  1. My Microsoft OneDrive account is a Family one.
  2. My excel file is an .xlsx
  3. I updated the page, clicked on “refreshed”, retried every time after each changes made.
  4. I tried with two tables, see below. The idea is: each table as defined rows and the second line filled. I also tried with more complex sheet with more data

 

Let me know if you need any other input from my side.

 

Thanks a lot in advance for the help.

 

William

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@William Saigon 

Help articles for using Excel in Zaps that may provide guidance: https://zapier.com/apps/excel/help

Try renaming the spreadsheet as Sheet2.

Make sure Sheet2 has headers in Row 1.

Is there an update to this problem? any work arounds? trouble shoot? I have the same issue

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Hey @William Saigon and @Quikdraft! 👋

Just came across this and wanted to ask whether you’re using the Add Row or Add Row to Table Microsoft Excel action in your Zaps?

Thinking that if the sheets are set up as tables and you’re using the Add Row action then that might be why the worksheet can’t be loaded. If you’re using the Add Row action can you try switching to the Add Row to Table action instead to see if that fixes it?

Looking forward to hearing from you both on this!

I am having the same issue with the add row to table function I have retried moving my headers to the top row and renaming my sheets and it still cannot find the sheets even though it has found the workbook. Any Advice or is this a servers issue?

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@SamB 

Had a client bring up a Zap Run error related to a Zap using Excel.

When I tried to troubleshoot the Zaps, I was unable to load Worksheets for a Spreadsheet.

Seem a few other topics posted about this, and wondering if this is a more widespread issue.

 

 

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Hello @MichaelGab and @Troy Tessalone 👋

@MichaelGab - I’m so sorry we missed your reply here previously! 

I’ve done some further digging and it appears that the workbooks not appearing in the dropdown field does indeed relate to the same error @Troy Tessalone mentioned (“You do not have permissions to open this file in the browser”). We’re tracking this issue in another topic here:


Everyone here has been added to the bug report to help increase it’s priority. I can’t make any promises around when it will be resolved by but you’ll all get an email notification as soon as it’s resolved. 

As we’re already tracking this issue in another thread I’m going to close this one out. I’d recommend subscribing to updates in the main thread here. And for anyone also running into this issue that comes across this, please reach out in the main thread and we’ll be happy to get you added to the bug report.