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Extract Values from Cells

Use the Extract Cell step to extract the content of a cell or a range of cells into a variable.

  1. On the Action tab, select Extract Cell.
  2. Select an option in the Extract This field.

    If the found range is a single cell, the value of this cell is extracted. If the found range contains more than one cell, the values of the cells are extracted as text in which the cells are tab separated and rows are separated by new lines. In both cases, the extracted value stored in the variable is created by applying the converters to the extracted value.

    The value extracted from a cell is essentially the content of the cell in Excel taking the value of the Extract This option into account. For a blank cell, the value is the empty string, and if a cell is part of a merged cell such as C4:D6 (created in Excel by merging cells), the extracted value is blank unless the cell is the top left cell C4 of the merged cells.