DocumentationIntegrationsMicrosoft 365
Excel
anymize reads your Excel workbooks, creates new formatted workbooks and appends rows to existing ones, every change only after your approval.
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What you can do with it
Examples from chat
What is in the Deadline control workbook in the Follow-up column? Make a comparison workbook from the three offers with vendor, price and delivery time. Add the new client as a row in the Client list. What is the sum of open items in the Accounting 2026 workbook? Create a vacation overview for the team as an Excel file.
- New workbooks get a filled frozen header row, striped rows, fitting column widths and a filter.
- Numbers become real numbers, dates real dates, euro amounts real currency fields. Sort and SUM work immediately.
- Values with a leading zero, such as article or phone numbers, stay text on purpose.
Connect
- 01Open Apps, Connectors area, Microsoft 365 tile.
- 02On the Excel card, click Connect.
- 03Sign in with Microsoft and confirm. If your organization requires IT approval, anymize takes you to the right button.
- 04Done. One sign-in covers the whole suite.
Excel has no separate permission at Microsoft; it hangs on the file rights. So this card requests just as much as OneDrive, not less. We prefer to say that clearly rather than make it look narrower than it is.
Can anymize add rows to my Excel workbook?
Yes, but only downward and only after your approval. Before writing, a card in chat shows which file and which worksheet will be written and what the rows look like. You can still change the values there.
- Rows are appended under existing data. Existing rows are never overwritten.
- That also applies to a workbook on SharePoint if you have it searched first.
- Change cells, delete rows, rebuild formulas: not possible. Those commands do not exist here.
- If the file is currently locked by someone, the assistant says so and does not write.
What gets anonymized
In a workbook there is often one row per person: name, address, date of birth, personnel number, bank details. These cell values are replaced by placeholders before the large AI model sees them. "Anna Berger, Musterstraße 12, DE89 3704 0044 0532 0130 00" becomes "[[PERSON_1]], [[ADRESSE_1]], [[IBAN_1]]".
When the assistant writes rows, they are created with placeholders. A shielded service in the EU inserts the real values only shortly before the approval card. In your workbook the correct name ends up.