Summary

This chapter introduced you to data tables and Excel files. The data table variable type is a widely used data type to hold structured and tabular data. Data tables interact easily with Excel files as they share the same data structure. Data tables and the concepts used with them go hand in hand when interacting with Excel files, as you experienced while doing the hands-on sessions. The concepts and activities learned in this chapter will come in handy when working with large Excel-related automation projects.

In addition, the concepts that have been discussed regarding the use of Excel files and data tables will be very helpful in later chapters, especially in the use case sections. The next chapter describes how UiPath robot can interact with user interfaces to perform different actions such as clicking, typing, and data scraping. Learning how to perform user interface interaction is very important for any RPA project. UI automation is a complex but important topic that...