# Reading excel file

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/reading-excel-file/74410>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard, database\
**Created:** [30 January 2023 12:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/reading-excel-file/74410 "2023-01-30T12:26:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![danielmartines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/danielmartines/32/75128_2.png) [@danielmartines](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/danielmartines)\
**Post date:** [30 January 2023 12:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/reading-excel-file/74410/1 "2023-01-30T12:26:03Z")

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I am developing a dashboard for a company who wants a dashboard visualizing data from each department in the company.

For that i need data from marketing and the companies' LinkedIn profile. I can download the data i need from LinkedIn in an excel file, but how do i read that excel file and how can i in the end display that Excel data on my dashboard?

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [30 January 2023 13:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/reading-excel-file/74410/2 "2023-01-30T13:31:18Z")

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Welcome to the community Daniel.

If you download to a CSV rather than Excel native file format, you can read it in using the file node and then convert it to JSON using the CSV node.

To display it, you probably want it to be a table and there is a contributed node for that - ui\_table I think?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 13:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/reading-excel-file/74410/3 "2023-03-01T13:31:45Z")

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