# Issue with Writing to Excel

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/issue-with-writing-to-excel/11306>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 25, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/issue-with-writing-to-excel/11306 "2017-04-25T18:21:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![astone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@astone](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/astone)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/issue-with-writing-to-excel/11306/1 "2017-04-25T18:21:07Z")

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For some reason it is giving me an error…?

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Wintour](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/paul_wintour/32/9381_2.png) [@Paul\_Wintour](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Paul_Wintour)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/issue-with-writing-to-excel/11306/2 "2017-04-25T18:29:38Z")

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You are feeding in a file instead of a file path. Remove the File.FromPath node and it should work

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**Author:** ![astone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@astone](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/astone)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/issue-with-writing-to-excel/11306/3 "2017-04-25T18:32:31Z")

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Still getting the issue… Below is my message again, once i made your change.

Warning: One or more of the input types are not matching. Couldn’t find a version of WriteToFile that takes arguments of type (string,string,string,string,\_\_array,bool)

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**Author:** ![john\_pierson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/john_pierson/32/191977_2.png) [@john\_pierson](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/john_pierson)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/issue-with-writing-to-excel/11306/4 "2017-04-25T18:34:36Z")

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start row and column take numbers rather than string.

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**Author:** ![astone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@astone](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/astone)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/issue-with-writing-to-excel/11306/5 "2017-04-25T18:40:01Z")

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Thanks, That worked.