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# Spreadsheets are now workbooks you and Bower can edit

> Create or import a spreadsheet and edit it in Bower with formulas, sheets, charts and pivot tables. Your team edits it together, and Bower reads it and makes changes you can undo.

**Shipped 2026-10-15 · Organization**

Until now, a `.csv` or `.xlsx` in Bower was a file Bower could read. It's now a
spreadsheet you work in: plate maps, sample manifests and instrument exports
stay next to the notes and protocols they belong to, and you no longer round-trip
through Excel to change a value.

## What's new

* **A spreadsheet in your workspace.** Choose **Create (+) > Spreadsheet** to
  start one from scratch or import a `.csv` or `.xlsx`. A spreadsheet file you
  upload or attach in Bower Chat becomes a spreadsheet too, and an existing
  attachment has **Convert to spreadsheet**.
* **The tools you expect.** Formulas, several sheets, sorting and filtering,
  charts, pivot tables and images. Changes save as you go.
* **Edit together.** Everyone with edit access works in the same workbook at
  once. **Version history** shows who changed what, and any version can be
  restored.
* **Ask Bower, with sources.** Bower reads live values, including formula
  results, and names the sheet and range behind each answer. Select cells and
  ask about "these".
* **Bower makes the change.** Ask it to fill in values, add a row by sample ID,
  format cells, sort, filter or add a chart. Each change shows on a
  **Spreadsheet updated** card with an **Undo** button.
* **Take it back out.** **Export** the whole workbook as Excel, or one sheet as
  CSV.

## Notes

* Workspaces in Restricted mode don't have native spreadsheets; their `.csv`
  and `.xlsx` files stay attachments.
* Live agent mode and connected AI apps can read spreadsheets but not change
  them.

## Related docs

* [Spreadsheets in Bower](/organisation/spreadsheets.md)
* [Undo a change Bower made](/organisation/spreadsheets.md#undo-a-change-bower-made)
* [Restricted mode](/trust-center/hipaa-compliance.md)


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