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In this post I will describe how a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet can be used in Oracle Data Integrator.
Microsoft Excel is one of the many different technologies you can leverage in ODI as a source or as a target.

Prepare your Excel spreadsheet

Prior to using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in ODI we need to specify a name for the different cell tables we want to use. You can have multiple names in the same spreadsheet.

First open up a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, we will need to define a named range.