Our team currently uses a legacy spreadsheet in Excel that is connected to Power Automate. This is visible by many teams and transitioning this workflow from Spreadsheet to Airtable would cause more issues than concerns.
I’m wonder if its possible to connect excel to Airtable and make it live so everything is in real-time so that I can use Airtable dashboards to showcase the data we get in the spreadsheet. Is a 3rd party application needed?
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Can i sync Microsoft Excel to Airtable Live?
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+1Short answer: there’s no native way to keep Excel and Airtable “live” and fully in sync.
You can use Excel (or connect to SharePoint / OneDrive) to seed an Airtable base, but after they aren’t connected. Airtable doesn’t offer a built-in real-time or ongoing sync with Excel.
To make it behave like a live connection, you’d need automation in both directions:
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A tool like Power Automate (or another integration platform) to watch for Excel row changes and update matching Airtable records using a unique ID.
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An Airtable automation (or API calls) to write changes back to Excel if you want bi-directional updates.
Or, you could just do a data upload nightly with the .csv uploader extension.
That said, once you go down this path, the bigger question becomes which system is the source of truth. Keeping two tools in real-time, bi-directional sync adds complexity around timing, conflicts, and error handling. In most cases, teams choose one system to be the “system of record” and treat the other as read-only or downstream.
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