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# Automating desktop spreadsheet models and reports

Build pivot tables, calculate formulas, and refresh data pipelines in native workbooks

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askSubmit workbook task
- ThenRun spreadsheet operations
- ResultView updated workbook

Drive desktop spreadsheet applications to refresh analytical queries, construct pivot tables, update complex formulas, and format presentation charts directly within native files without manual entry.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

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Interact with the local spreadsheet interface using the command bridge. Open requested workbooks, manipulate ranges, execute calculation models, and generate visual charts. Always request explicit user approval before saving destructive changes, overwriting existing worksheets, or running embedded macro scripts.
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## Tools it uses

SpreadsheetTerminal

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- spreadsheets
- automation
- reporting
- data

## Source

[mcp-server-excel: Automate real Microsoft Excel with AI via MCP Server or CLI — Power Query, DAX, VBA, PivotTables, charts, and 412 operatio](https://github.com/sbroenne/mcp-server-excel)
GitHub · checked 2026-10-16

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-16 · Updated 2026-10-16 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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