excel-mcp-server MCP server

Excel MCP server: let AI (Claude, Cursor, Codex) create and edit Excel files with charts, PivotTables, slicers and formulas. No Excel required.

What excel-mcp-server does

Summarised from the project README; check the repository for the latest details.

Features

• Create Excel charts with AI: column, bar, line, area, pie, doughnut, radar, scatter and
• The Excel 2016 chart types: waterfall, histogram, Pareto, box and whisker, treemap, sunburst
• Real PivotTables that Excel refreshes (grouping, calculated fields, "show values as",
• Sparklines (line, column, win/loss)
• Formulas are calculated without Excel by a built-in engine (about 260 functions, checked
• Dynamic arrays (`FILTER`, `SORT`, `UNIQUE`, `SEQUENCE`, `LET`) are stored as Excel stores

Tools exposed (9)

• Area – Tools
• Workbooks – `createworkbook`, `describeworkbook`, `setworkbooksettings`, `listworkbooks`, `exportworkbook`, `importworkbook`
• Sheets – `describesheet`, `createsheet`, `renamesheet`, `copysheet`, `deletesheet`, `insertrowsorcolumns`, `deleterowsorcolumns`
• Cells – `readrange`, `writerange`, `clearrange`, `copyrange`, `sortrange`, `transformrange`, `findcells`, `replacecells`
• Formatting – `formatrange`, `mergecells`, `setsheetlayout`, `addconditionalformat`, `adddatavalidation`
• Objects – `settable`, `createchart`, `deletechart`, `createpivottable`, `deletepivottable`, `addslicer`, `deleteslicer`, `insertimage`, `deleteimage`,
• Macros – `readvba`; with `--allow-vba-write`: `writevbamodule`, `deletevbamodule`
• Parameter – Meaning
• source – Where data comes from, optionally on another sheet (`Data!A1:E200`)

How to install excel-mcp-server

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