How to keep the most current Excel data on a Confluence page?

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Team A documents stuff almost exclusively through Excel. Team B documents stuff almost exclusively through Confluence.

B relies heavily on A's Excel data, so periodically someone manually copies individual Excel cells onto Confluence. Beyond being inefficient, the problem is that the Excel file gets updated fairly regularly, the Confluence pages doesn't, so Team B ends up referencing outdated information. 

I want Team A to be able to edit their Excel files like they normally do, and I want Team B to receive that new data on Confluence in real time.

I tried out the "Office Excel" macro, but it looks like it'd still require someone to re-attach the Excel file. I see the Companion app for Cloud is retiring in 2022, so that doesn't look like a solution either.

Is there a macro that I can tell to "look for X filename.xlsx in A:\blah\blah file path"? Or something else?

 

-edited a typo.

Bill Bailey

Have you tried beating Team A? ;-)  

Has Team A tried editing in place?

edit-an-attached-file 

If they followed this method, then at least the attached file would always be current.

 

A more robust solution would be this paid plugin:

excel-for-confluence 

We have used this before to try to bridge the gap between the ludites mired in the 00s and us cool people. ;-)

And you might need to get Team A to meet Team B halfway and have the infor within their spreadhseets replicated on some other sheet to make it easier for Team B to consume.