Microsoft Excel

Sync warehouse data to Excel worksheets used by sales, ops, and marketing teams

Supported syncing

For more information about sync modes, refer to the sync modes docs.

Connect to Microsoft Excel

Go to the Destinations overview page and click the Add destination button. Select Microsoft Excel and click Continue. You can then authenticate Hightouch to Microsoft Excel by logging into your Microsoft Excel account. Once successful, you will be redirected back to Hightouch to enter a descriptive name for your destination and complete setup.

Sync configuration

Once you've set up your Microsoft Excel destination and have a model to pull data from, you can set up your sync configuration to begin syncing data. Go to the Syncs overview page and click the Add sync button to begin. Then, select the relevant model and the Microsoft Excel destination you want to sync to.

Sync mode

Your first configuration is the sync mode. You can select either:

• Mirror: if you want the full result set to overwrite a particular sheet's contents
• Snapshot: if you want to create a new sheet on every sync; the created worksheet's name is composed of the model name and sync run timestamp, for example, Model Name: YYYY-MM-DD T hh mm ss.

Drive and workbook selection

You can select any drives the user you authenticated with has access to. When selecting a workbook, you can either select the workbook from a dropdown or choose to enter a workbook ID. Once you've selected the workbook, its worksheets populate the next dropdown.

Field mapping

You can choose to sync all columns or select only certain model columns to sync to your Excel worksheet. When syncing all columns, the column names in Excel mirror the column names in your source. When selecting specific columns, you can enter new columns names. If you'd like to rename columns, even if you want to sync all columns, you need to map each one individually.

Custom cell range

By default, Hightouch inserts data in a worksheet starting at cell A1. The inserted data clears and updates the entire sheet. You can optionally select a range of cells to insert the data to. This capablity lets your preserve formulas or notes in your spreadsheet's margins.

When entering a range into the Custom Cell Range use the format A1:Z1000, where A1 is the top left cell to insert data into and Z1000 is the bottom right cell.

Tips and troubleshooting

Need admin approval

If you see a Need admin approval page appear when accessing Microsoft's OAuth login flow, your Azure Active Directory user account might not have the necessary permissions to connect applications to your organization.

Ask one of your Azure organization's admins to edit your user account permissions.

You can read more about Azure user permissions and configuring user settings in Azure's documentation.

Common errors

If you encounter an error or question not listed below and need assistance, don't hesitate to reach out. We're here to help.

My data isn't appearing in Excel

Make sure to refresh your Excel worksheet after your sync has completed to see the updated values.

Query results are too large for provided range

This error occurs if you've set a custom cell range that isn't large enough for the dataset you're syncing. The error specifies if you need to update your row or column range.

Live debugger

Hightouch provides complete visibility into the API calls made during each of your sync runs. We recommend reading our article on debugging tips and tricks to learn more.

Sync alerts

Hightouch can alert you of sync issues via Slack, PagerDuty, SMS, or email. For details, please visit our article on alerting.