# Ray and Excel

> Pull the number out of the workbook without opening it, and put one back.

Source: https://heyray.io/integrations/excel

Ray is an AI teammate that works in your team chat, on Slack today. Connect Excel and it can do the Excel part of a request without anyone leaving the conversation: read what it needs, draft the change, and post it for approval before anything is written. 16 reads run without asking. 2 actions wait for a human approval.

## What Ray reads in Excel

Reading changes nothing, so Ray never stops to ask whether it may look something up.

- Workbooks, worksheets, ranges, tables, and named items
- Charts and the comments on a sheet

## What waits for your approval

Every one of these posts an approval card in the thread showing exactly what is about to happen. Nothing runs until someone clicks approve, and no setting turns that off.

- Write values into a range, with the cells and the values on the card
- Add a row to a table

## Things Ray is never handed

These are left out during curation, so they are not something Ray could do and decides against. They are not in front of it at all.

- Change workbook permissions

## Ask it like this

- "@Ray what is the total in the Q3 tab of the forecast?"
- "@Ray add a row to the expenses table for the conference ticket."
- "@Ray which tabs are in the budget workbook?"
- "@Ray update the headcount cell on the plan tab to twelve."

## Connecting Excel

Every person on the team connects their own Excel account on Excel's own login screen, so Ray can only reach what that person can already reach, and the history in Excel shows who actually asked. Passwords never pass through Ray. Disconnecting Excel or uninstalling Ray revokes the connection.

## More

- This page for people: https://heyray.io/integrations/excel
- Every integration: https://heyray.io/integrations.md
- Install Ray: https://heyray.io/install.md
- Pricing: https://heyray.io/pricing.md