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No Query for you with xls

-Google Sheets
Author

Kevn Gilds, MPA

Published

2023-06-23

I have one Google Spreadsheet that I need to copy and paste the data to keep it up to date. This hurts my soul–I was hoping to put an end to this when our organization started used Google Drive desktop to sync files.

The sync works just fine but I am not able to query a spreadsheet in an xls format. The workaround is create a csv file from the xls file and complete a file import into the existing spreadsheet with the option to replace the sheet.


About

Kevin is a nonprofit data professional operating out of Lakeland, Florida.
My expertise is helping nonprofits collect, manage and analyze their program data.