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title: "Excel and CSV files: ask them questions · Adea"
description: "Adea is built to read Excel and CSV files, so a spreadsheet can be asked questions and compared with the rest of your numbers."
url: https://adea.app/integrations/excel
---

# Ask a question of an Excel or CSV file.

Adea will read the files you upload and treat each sheet as a table, so a supplier list or an export can be asked about in plain words.

[Connect Excel and CSV](https://adea.app/signup) [Start free](https://adea.app/signup)

You can connect Excel and CSV today.

## What Adea reads from Excel and CSV

- Excel workbooks, one table per sheet
- CSV files, with the delimiter and encoding detected
- Headers, dates and numbers, read as their real types
- A new version of a file, replacing the old one

## How it connects

Upload, or connect a folder

## What you can ask

You ask

Which suppliers in this price list raised prices by more than 5 percent?

Adea answers

19 of 142 suppliers. The largest rise is 11.4 percent, on packaging, and 6 of the 19 are among your ten biggest.

You ask

What does the export say about total sales per month?

Adea answers

Sales rose from €118,000 in June to €171,000 in September. August was the only month that fell, down 4 percent.

## Questions about Excel and CSV

### Which file types will Adea read?

Excel workbooks and CSV files.

### Will Adea change my file?

No. It reads your copy and never edits it.

### Who can see what is in the file?

Only the people you give access to in your Adea workspace.

## Other sources like this

[Google Sheets](https://adea.app/integrations/sheets) [Files by mail](https://adea.app/integrations/inbox) [All sources](https://adea.app/integrations)

## What do you want to know?

[Start free](https://adea.app/signup) [Book 20 minutes](mailto:hello@adea.app?subject=20%20minutes%20about%20Adea)