Reading the shopping list from Microsoft Excel

As the hands-on tutorial for this chapter, we will be reading the shopping list from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Previously, we hardcoded the shopping list by entering the items that we want to purchase as initial values of a collection. We wouldn't want to do that every week; editing the collection requires the person updating the list to be proficient in Blue Prism. Instead, what happens in real life is that the list is maintained somewhere like a Microsoft Excel file as a worksheet. Excel makes it easy for anyone, even a novice computer user, to enter their shopping needs.

Before we start the chapter, let's observe the following steps to prepare our shopping list:

  1. Create a new Excel named ...

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