# Loading excel data in P5

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**Created:** [February 19, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/loading-excel-data-in-p5/27930 "2021-02-19T12:07:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![xbix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@xbix](https://discourse.processing.org/u/xbix)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/loading-excel-data-in-p5/27930/1 "2021-02-19T12:07:07Z")

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I haven’t found any libraries for that purpose. What are my options when I want to load excel data into p5?

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![josephh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/josephh/32/210_2.png) [@josephh](https://discourse.processing.org/u/josephh)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/loading-excel-data-in-p5/27930/2 "2021-02-19T13:53:06Z")

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Hi,

Excel data can easily be exported to standard an open formats like [CSV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values) that you can the import into p5.js :

- [`loadTable()`](https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/loadTable)

> Reads the contents of a file or URL and creates a [p5.Table](https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5.Table) object with its values.
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> By default, the file is assumed to be comma-separated (in CSV format). Table only looks for a header row if the ‘header’ option is included.