# How to Retrieve information from Excel

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-retrieve-information-from-excel/74746
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [April 17, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-retrieve-information-from-excel/74746 "2019-04-17T04:21:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![talkingtree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85e7bf/32.png) [@talkingtree](https://community.thunkable.com/u/talkingtree)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-retrieve-information-from-excel/74746/1 "2019-04-17T04:21:55Z")

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Hi, how do you make variable to be the data from Google sheets (or other alternatives). Seems like a few steps are missing

Data from Google sheets  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/2/b/2bb42036559d22f4465468a723e237335812a4a0.png)

Thunkable variable to be the “title” or “content”  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/b/2/b2142bac66e0a678b3f854dbc489fa546e69c600.png)

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### Author: ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 9:23am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-retrieve-information-from-excel/74746/2 "2019-04-17T09:23:45Z")

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We have a few different [storage](https://docs.thunkable.com/data) options in Thunkable, if you’re looking for spreadsheet-like functionality then I’d recommend the `LocalDB` or the `Spreadsheet by Airtable` component.

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### Author: ![talkingtree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85e7bf/32.png) [@talkingtree](https://community.thunkable.com/u/talkingtree)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 10:47am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-retrieve-information-from-excel/74746/3 "2019-04-17T10:47:55Z")

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@domhnallohanlon

this is what I had came up so far to speech to text

I’m assuming we need to define heading as a variable and content as another variable. Then we need to link the variable and content to a database, which the app then can text to speech.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/7/1/71e62efb39b8abcff7f08e7e66a4157b6318452b.png)

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### Author: ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 11:37am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-retrieve-information-from-excel/74746/4 "2019-04-17T11:37:44Z")

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Do you know which data base you’re going to link to?

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### Author: ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-retrieve-information-from-excel/74746/5 "2024-11-08T12:14:02Z")

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