<divclass="accordion-heading"><adata-toggle="collapse"data-parent="#accordion-faq"href="#faq-18"class="accordion-toggle collapsed">Can I use an Excel spreadsheet instead of Google Spreadsheets?</a></div>
<divclass="accordion-inner">No, but it's pretty easy to copy rows into a Google Spreadsheet. TimelineJS uses Google's API to access the data from the Google Spreadsheet and turns it into native TimelineJS json.</div>
<divclass="accordion-inner">No. TimelineJS uses Google's API to access the data from the Google Spreadsheet. If you want to start your work in Excel and then copy and paste your data into a Google spreadsheet, that’ll work but the likelihood of errors increases.</div>