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Import Data from Excel Online to Excel (offline)
Scenario:
I have an office 365 excel document that is synced up with a Microsoft survey form. I then have an offline excel file that I would like to read those survey responses in. The offline excel file is required because we need to run excel macros.
Is there a way to import the contents of an entire sheet from an Excel Online document into my offline excel file? I have looked through the Data > Get Data options, and I don't see anything that jumps out at me that could be of use. But I have not dealt with getting information from external sources that were not also located on the same computer. Please note, that the intent of all this is to send the excel file to other computers, but still maintain that connection to the Excel Online information.
Thanks
From terminology point of view - there are no excel online files and excel native files. There are only excel files which you may access from Excel online web app (and in this case it shall be on OneDrive or Sharepoint) or from Excel desktop app.
Generated by Microsoft Forms file is on OneDrive by default, you may pick-up the table from that file (and transform as necessary) by Power Query using Excel desktop app from within the file located at any place. The only you need is the connection to you OneDrive. If you share that file with other people you also need to share the OneDrive file with these people to give them possibility to refresh the data.
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- When you open your Online Excel file there is an option called "Edit" drop down
Edit in excel
Edit in Online Excel
Choose to edit in Online Excel and then it will open in desktop excel now you will have all the options
Let me knowI was already aware of the ability to edit the excel using native excel, however, the file is not a macro-enabled document. So I'm wondering if there is a way to avoid re-creating everything by just extracting the data I need from the excel online.
Any ideas?
From terminology point of view - there are no excel online files and excel native files. There are only excel files which you may access from Excel online web app (and in this case it shall be on OneDrive or Sharepoint) or from Excel desktop app.
Generated by Microsoft Forms file is on OneDrive by default, you may pick-up the table from that file (and transform as necessary) by Power Query using Excel desktop app from within the file located at any place. The only you need is the connection to you OneDrive. If you share that file with other people you also need to share the OneDrive file with these people to give them possibility to refresh the data.
