Add Excel Online

by microsoft

Add Excel Online is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in power-platform-skills.

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Install Add Excel Online

Copy Add Excel Online into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills/tree/main/plugins/code-apps/skills/add-excel ~/.claude/skills/add-excel

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/code-apps/skills/add-excel/SKILL.md in microsoft/power-platform-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/add-excel
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Add Excel Online does

Add Excel Online adds the Excel Online (Business) connector to a Power Apps code app for reading or writing workbook tables from OneDrive or SharePoint. Use it when you need to configure Excel table access and update the app code.

Add Excel Online is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Add Excel Online comes from a repository tagged claude-code-plugin, claude-code-skills, code-apps, github-copilot-plugin and power-apps.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

📋 Shared Instructions: shared-instructions.md - Cross-cutting concerns.

Add Excel Online

Workflow

Check Memory Bank → 2. Gather → 3. Add Connector → 4. Configure → 5. Build → 6. Update Memory Bank

Step 1: Check Memory Bank

Check for memory-bank.md per shared-instructions.md.

Step 2: Gather

Ask the user:

Where is the workbook? (OneDrive or SharePoint)
Workbook file name
Which table(s) in the workbook to access

Step 3: Add Connector

First, find the connection ID (see connector-reference.md):

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Add Excel Online provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/list-connections

Frequently asked about Add Excel Online

What else does microsoft publish alongside Add Excel Online?
Add Excel Online is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/power-platform-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Connector, Add Connector and Add Data Source. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Add Excel Online does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/power-platform-skills page.
How does Add Excel Online compare to other Automation skills?
Add Excel Online ranks #1030 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Add Excel Online against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.