# Reading Cell From Excel Sheet

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-cell-from-excel-sheet/22208>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** scripting\
**Created:** [January 30, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-cell-from-excel-sheet/22208 "2019-01-30T02:58:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@elizabeth](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/elizabeth)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-cell-from-excel-sheet/22208/1 "2019-01-30T02:58:51Z")

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I am wanting to read a specific cell that is added to an excel sheet daily from a shared drive and write it to tag in Ignition. The cell with the value is next to a date column, is there a way to search the excel sheet for today’s date and select the value from the next column? Is this possible to do without installing a module for reading/writing documents?

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**Author:** ![PRAMANJ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pramanj/32/66935_2.png) [@PRAMANJ](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PRAMANJ)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-cell-from-excel-sheet/22208/2 "2019-07-13T14:38:01Z")

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Your requirement is not clear! However my newly released module [New module - RWS - Restful Web Services , from PRAMANJ Technologies](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/new-module-rws-restful-web-services-from-pramanj-technologies/26525) allows you to write to any tag from an HTML page based in an event. If you can specify your requirements perhaps I can think of solution to write to tag based on an event from an embedded EXCEL sheet.