# Feature request: pls add Excel as glossary file type

**URL:** <https://forum.xbench.net/t/feature-request-pls-add-excel-as-glossary-file-type/191>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 8, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/feature-request-pls-add-excel-as-glossary-file-type/191 "2016-09-08T09:54:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![michaelbeijer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.xbench.net/michaelbeijer/32/8_2.png) [@michaelbeijer](https://forum.xbench.net/u/michaelbeijer)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/feature-request-pls-add-excel-as-glossary-file-type/191/1 "2016-09-08T09:54:42Z")

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It would be **great** if Xbench could also read Excel files as glossaries. Having to convert all of my Excel glossaries (which all my clients seem to prefer these days) to Unicode text each time they send me an updated version is a bit of a pain.

Michael

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**Author:** ![michaelbeijer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.xbench.net/michaelbeijer/32/8_2.png) [@michaelbeijer](https://forum.xbench.net/u/michaelbeijer)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/feature-request-pls-add-excel-as-glossary-file-type/191/2 "2016-09-10T14:35:41Z")

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Hmm. Not so high on the list, I see.

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**Author:** ![Manuel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.xbench.net/manuel/32/163_2.png) [@Manuel](https://forum.xbench.net/u/Manuel)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/feature-request-pls-add-excel-as-glossary-file-type/191/3 "2016-10-02T13:10:12Z")

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Hello Michael,

I agree with you that it would be just awesome that Xbench supported Excel files as glossary type, since it would really save a lot of time saving/converting Excel glossaries to TXT (and potentially removing/replacing the line breaks that Excell cells might contain) so that it could be in a Xbench-friendly format. Thumbs up for that suggestion!

Manuel

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**Author:** ![scavicchio](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.xbench.net/scavicchio/32/482_2.png) [@scavicchio](https://forum.xbench.net/u/scavicchio)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/feature-request-pls-add-excel-as-glossary-file-type/191/4 "2017-07-10T22:15:07Z")

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Hello!  
Any news about this feature? I miss it so much…  
Thanks,  
Sílvia

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**Author:** ![agnus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@agnus](https://forum.xbench.net/u/agnus)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/feature-request-pls-add-excel-as-glossary-file-type/191/5 "2017-08-30T10:06:50Z")

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Oh yes, I support this too.