# Copying an Excel file to a table's dataset

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**Created:** [May 21, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copying-an-excel-file-to-a-tables-dataset/34942 "2020-05-21T15:38:18Z")\
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xlrd works with Jython 2.7.

Unzip this into the _user-lib/pylib/site-packages_ folder.

[xlrd.zip](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/uploads/short-url/rZTrGR58x9kIfTHEBhHHkzyJsLw.zip) (283.0 KB)

[Documentation](https://xlrd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

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