topic You can use OLEDB VBO for in Product Forum https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Retrieve-data-from-excel/m-p/64968#M17652 You can use OLEDB VBO for this purpose. Have a look at: <A href="https://blueprism.knowledgeowl.com/help/how-do-i-configure-the-oledb-vb" target="test_blank">https://blueprism.knowledgeowl.com/help/how-do-i-configure-the-oledb-vb</A> Thu, 18 May 2017 16:57:00 GMT ShashiK_R 2017-05-18T16:57:00Z Retrieve data from excel https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Retrieve-data-from-excel/m-p/64967#M17651 Hi, I have thousands of records in excel and when I try and load them to BP it either takes a lot of time or does not load sometimes and gives an error. Any advice as how to proceed. And any ideas as how could I use Excel as a database directly to my solution instead to take it into a collection. Thanks. Thu, 18 May 2017 16:31:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Retrieve-data-from-excel/m-p/64967#M17651 PrateekMehan 2017-05-18T16:31:00Z You can use OLEDB VBO for https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Retrieve-data-from-excel/m-p/64968#M17652 You can use OLEDB VBO for this purpose. Have a look at: <A href="https://blueprism.knowledgeowl.com/help/how-do-i-configure-the-oledb-vb" target="test_blank">https://blueprism.knowledgeowl.com/help/how-do-i-configure-the-oledb-vb</A> Thu, 18 May 2017 16:57:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Retrieve-data-from-excel/m-p/64968#M17652 ShashiK_R 2017-05-18T16:57:00Z