Working with data in Excel

In the previous section, we looked at the basics of Excel automation, such as opening, reading, writing, saving, and closing Excel workbooks. In this section, we will explore the Automation Anywhere Excel advanced package. The walk-through will involve building a bot that performs a specific role. The bot will replace a manual task that involves updating an Excel spreadsheet. The file used is available as part of the GitHub repository Chapter11_SampleData.xlsm:

Figure 11.23 – Snapshot of the Chapter11_SampleData.xlsm file

This file contains a data table of sales achieved by a fictitious organization. In order to automate the file, we perform the following steps:

1. Open the Excel file Chapter11_SampleData.xlsm.
2. Insert a new column after column 4 and call it Amount on the worksheet Extract.
3. Add a formula in the new column to calculate the sales amount (Units Sold * Sale Price).
4. Sort the data table by the...