Dropbox: Merge several sheets into one

You can use the Dropbox importer to merge multiple sheets of an internal or external Microsoft Excel doc into one master view.

There are two main cases when you need to combine data from several sheets:

Import same data from several sheets of one workbook (e.g. monthly analytics).
Import data from several workbooks into one workbook and sheet (e.g. combine suppliers or customers data in several workbooks into one master sheet).

For each of these cases, you can use Coupler.io and this guide.

Import same data from several sheets of one workbook

For this purpose, you need to start setting up a regular Dropbox importer and complete the following steps:

Fill out the Title field
Select Dropbox as a source.
Connect your Dropbox account.
Select an XSLX or XLSM file that you would like to import several sheets from.

After that in the Sheets field, select the sheets that you would like to combine data from:

If you expect to create more sheets in the future with the same names pattern, for example, Invoices 02-22, Invoices 03-22, etc., you can specify regular expressions instead of manually selecting sheet names from a list.

Learn more about regular expressions to define what expression you need to specify to fit your needs. Here is the list of the most common cases:

All sheets: .*
2021-01, 2021-02, 2021-03, ...: 2021.+
2020-12, 2021-01, 2021-02,...: 202.+
Dec 2020, Jan 2021, Feb 2021, All 2020, 12-2020, 01-2021: .*202.$
All sheets with a name that starts with "sales data": sales data.+
All sheets with a name that contains “sales data”: .*sales data.*
All sheets with a name that ends with "sales data": .*sales data

Import data from several workbooks into one workbook

If your data is stored in different workbooks but the sheets have the same structure of data, complete the following steps to merge and load data into one workbook:

For each file set up a separate Dropbox to Excel importers. These importers will import data to a separate sheet in the desired destination workbook.
Set up an Excel to Excel importer and select all these sheets with the imported Dropbox data. These sheets will be combined into one as described above.