I had the opportunity today to respond to a post on the Symantec Workflow forums, here, regarding writing data to an Excel file.  Here’s a quick go-to on how to do it.

Let’s have a look at two different scenarios.  The first being that there’s a file that’s being output to a specific location (like a log file), and the second, that a user is downloading report data to an excel file that will be saved to their default download directory.

Both scenarios are illustrated in the demo project for this post, and require the import of the LogicBase.Components.Office.dll library (Microsoft Office).

*Note that this method can also be applied to a number of other scenarios, but an important third scenario would be sending an Excel file via the Send Email component as the file attachment.

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