Integrations / Spreadsheets
Manage Excel tables and drive files from WhatsApp
Flann connects Excel to the WhatsApp chat you already run your business from. You ask, and Flann picks the right Excel action. Signatures chased, notes tidied, invoices read and filed: this is the paperwork side of running a café, a clinic or a building firm, and none of it needs you at a desk. Connect Excel and Flann handles the reading straight away.
55 actions in Excel. 26 only look things up, and 29 create, update, send or delete. You connect with a one-click sign-in.
What you can ask Flann to do in Excel
Type it or say it in a voice note. Flann works out which Excel action you mean.
“Find drive files in Excel.”
“Show me my comments in Excel.”
“Show me my table rows in Excel.”
“Add a table row in Excel.”
“Add a table in Excel.”
“Create a session in Excel.”
What Flann can work with in Excel
Excel gives Flann 55 actions across 20 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Tables | addlook upupdate | 3 |
| Table rows | adddeletelook up | 3 |
| Drive files | look upsearch | 2 |
| Worksheets | adddeletelook upupdate | 5 |
| Table columns | adddeletelook up | 4 |
| Workbooks | createexportlook upupload | 4 |
| Charts | addlook upupdate | 3 |
| Ranges | look upaddupdate | 3 |
How the same table job compares, in Excel directly and through Flann.
| Compare | In Excel yourselfYou click through each job | Flann on ExcelYou ask, Flann does the clicking |
|---|---|---|
| Asking for something | Open the app and find the right page | A WhatsApp message, typed or spoken |
| Finding answers about tables | Filters and searches you run yourself | 26 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Making changes | Typed in by hand | 29 changes, made from a message |
| Excel records | All of them, one screen at a time | 20 kinds, from one chat |
| Getting connected | Nothing new to set up | One sign-in to Excel |
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Step by step: Excel jobs you can hand to Flann
What happens between your message and the result in Excel.
Create a table from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create a table in Excel with these details.”
- Flann runs
List Tablesin Excel and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Add Tablein Excel. - Flann creates it in Excel and confirms in the chat.
Fix a worksheet without opening Excel
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Change the worksheet in Excel: here is what is different.”
- Flann runs
List Worksheetsin Excel and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Update Worksheetin Excel. - Flann makes the change in Excel and confirms in the chat.
Clean up table rows you no longer need
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Which table rows in Excel are out of date? Remove the ones I confirm.”
- Flann runs
List Table Rowsin Excel and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Delete Table Rowin Excel. - Each removal is confirmed in the chat.
The Excel jobs you can stop doing yourself
You stay in charge of what goes out. Flann does the reading, the drafting and the chasing.
Chasing the unsigned agreements
Today
Every week a few agreements sit unsigned in Excel. Working out who has not signed, and writing a polite nudge to each person, quietly eats the end of your Friday afternoon.
With Flann
“Which agreements in Excel are still waiting for a signature?”
Open envelopes in Excel come back as one list: who each is waiting on and how long it has been out. A short reminder is drafted for each signer, in the tone you use with customers and suppliers, and checked against what was already sent so nobody is nagged twice in a week.
What you stop doing: Keeping a mental list of who still owes you a signature stops being your job.
Writing up a site visit
Today
After a visit to a client, the details live in your head or on the back of an envelope. Proper notes in Excel get pushed to tomorrow.
With Flann
“Voice note from the Greenway visit. Make it a proper note in Excel under that client.”
Your voice note is transcribed, sorted under headings such as what was agreed, measurements and next steps, and matched to the right client in Excel. It reads like notes written at a desk.
What you stop doing: Writing up visits from memory the next morning is no longer necessary.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Excel
- Search for Excel in Flann’s Connectors.
- Sign in to your Excel account on the secure page that opens and allow access. There is no developer account or API key to set up.
- From then on, message Flann on WhatsApp. It works in Excel whenever a request needs it.
Reading from Excel is instant. Excel stays connected until you remove it in Connectors.
Ways to use Excel with Flann
Start a document by voice
Send Flann the gist in a voice note. It prepares the document in Excel for you to check.
Share without the hunt
Ask Flann for the file a customer needs. It finds it in Excel so you can send it on.
Keep things in order
Tell Flann where something belongs.
Everything Flann can do in Excel
All 55 Excel actions, as Flann sees them.
Looks up 26
- List Table Columns
- Search Drive Files
- Who Am I
- Export Workbook to PDF
- Get Chart Axis
- Get Chart Data Labels
- Get Chart Legend
- Get Range
- Get SharePoint Range
- Get SharePoint Worksheet
- Get table column
- Get workbook
- Get Worksheet
- Get Worksheet Used Range
- List Chart Series
- List Charts
- List Comments
- List Drive Files
- List Drive Item Children
- List Named Items
- List SharePoint Tables
- List SharePoint Worksheets
- List Table Rows
- List Tables
- List Workbook Permissions
- List Worksheets
Changes 29
- Add Table
- Add Workbook Permission
- Create Excel Session
- Insert Range
- Add Chart
- Add SharePoint Worksheet
- Add Table Column
- Add Table Row
- Add Worksheet
- Apply Table Filter
- Apply Table Sort
- Clear Range
- Clear Table Filter
- Close Excel Session
- Convert Table To Range
- Create Workbook
- Delete Table Column
- Delete Table Row
- Delete Worksheet
- Merge Cells
- Protect Worksheet
- Sort Range
- Update Chart
- Update Chart Legend
- Update Range
- Update SharePoint Range
- Update Table
- Update Worksheet
- Upload Workbook from URL
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What can Flann do with tables in Excel?
Flann can add, look up and update tables in Excel, using 3 actions (Add Table, List Tables, Update Table). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change tables in Excel.
What can Flann do with table rows in Excel?
Flann can add, delete and look up table rows in Excel, using 3 actions (Add Table Row, Delete Table Row, List Table Rows). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change table rows in Excel.
How does Flann connect to Excel?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Excel and sign in to your Excel account on a secure page. There is no developer account or API key to set up. Once it is connected, Flann can use 55 actions in Excel.
How do I ask Flann to do something in Excel?
Message Flann on WhatsApp the way you would message a colleague, or send a voice note. Flann picks the Excel action that fits and asks if anything is missing.
Is Excel included in my Flann plan?
Yes. Every Flann plan includes every app, Excel included.