Clear Cells

Clear formats or data from cells in an Excel Online worksheet.

Due to third-party API limitations, this action card doesn't update workbooks that are stored in OneDrive shared libraries. Updates are limited to workbooks stored in personal OneDrive storage.

If you move a workbook from personal OneDrive storage to a shared library, the Microsoft API may continue to return the data of the version of the file at the time when it was moved. If you return the file to personal storage, the Microsoft API may return data for both the original file and the updated file after it was returned to personal OneDrive storage.

Options

Field Definition Type Required

Workbook

List of workbooks available in your account. Workbook is another word for your Excel files.

If you select a Workbook from the dropdown, ignore the Workbook ID field.

If you select -- Enter Workbook ID -- from the dropdown list, then enter an ID in the Workbook ID field.

 Dropdown TRUE

Workbook ID

Option to specify a Excel Online workbook by ID.

Example of a workbook ID: 015PGUOTTY6ZMVGBRB65DLDRED7VJJEJTP

To get the ID for an Excel Online workbook, see Get a DriveItem resource.

 Text FALSE

Worksheet

List of worksheets available in the specified workbook. A worksheet is an individual spreadsheet within a workbook, displayed as a tab in an Excel file.

 Dropdown TRUE

Apply to

Select the content to clear from the cells.

  • All: clear formats and content.
  • Formats: clear formats only.
  • Contents: clear contents only.
 Dropdown TRUE

Input

The cell reference cells are used to construct a grid of cells to apply the clear action.

Field Definition Type Required

Cells

Cell Reference Begin

A value representing a cell (for example, A2) in the top-left corner of the grid to be cleared.

 Text TRUE

Cell Reference End

A value representing a cell (for example, D4) in the bottom-right corner of the grid to be cleared.

 Text TRUE

Output

Field Definition Type

Status Code

Result of the operation. The connector returns an HTTP status code that indicates whether the action taken by the card succeeded or failed. For example:

  • A 201 Created status code indicates success where a new resource was created.
  • A 403 Forbidden error indicates that the HTTP request wasn't processed because the necessary permissions were missing.

For a full list of possible status codes, see HTTP status codes.

 Number