# Micorsoft Excel Input Step

**URL:** <https://community.automationedge.com/t/micorsoft-excel-input-step/3773>\
**Category:** Process Studio\
**Created:** [June 26, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/micorsoft-excel-input-step/3773 "2021-06-26T18:51:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![manish\_salve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@manish\_salve](https://community.automationedge.com/u/manish_salve)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/micorsoft-excel-input-step/3773/1 "2021-06-26T18:51:24Z")

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I want to use **Regular Expression** in the Microsoft Except Input step to read data from multiple files…  
How to do this ?

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**Author:** ![BhagyashriC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@BhagyashriC](https://community.automationedge.com/u/BhagyashriC)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 6:54am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/micorsoft-excel-input-step/3773/2 "2021-06-28T06:54:28Z")

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Hi Manish,

Could you try this regular expression, this helps you to get all excel files from that specific folder and you can read the data from all files.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/automationedge/original/1X/d741a05d41cfc564a2a20555e0b0869fb39c262e.png)