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How to specify a specific sheet in an Excel workbook for PAD actions

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When running actions in Excel such as "Read from Excel worksheet", is it possible to name a specific sheet to work with? If you have a workbook with several sheets, PAD seems to pull from whichever one the user last dealt with, which might not always be the correct sheet for the action. 

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    UshaJyothiKasibhotla Profile Picture
    225 Moderator on at

    Hi @JM12345 

    There is an activity called set active work sheet and give the input sheet name...then you can do the operations which you need to....

     

    Hope this helps

    Usha

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    @JM12345 

    Please use “set active worksheet” action to activate your worksheet first.

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  • JM12345 Profile Picture
    20 on at

    Found the command, I will try it, thanks!

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