# Glide requesting access to Onedrive when linking an Excel Spreadsheet

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-requesting-access-to-onedrive-when-linking-an-excel-spreadsheet/69087>\
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**Created:** [December 29, 2023, 7:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-requesting-access-to-onedrive-when-linking-an-excel-spreadsheet/69087 "2023-12-29T07:11:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Perry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/perry/32/62841_2.png) [@Perry](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Perry)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 7:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-requesting-access-to-onedrive-when-linking-an-excel-spreadsheet/69087/1 "2023-12-29T07:11:15Z")

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I may be misunderstanding this but I am linking/syncing an Excel spreadsheet to one of my apps (not importing it) for the first time and Glide is requesting complete access to all of my Onedrive. It is also requesting access to the one spreadsheet that I want it to have access to.

It also wants to be able to read my profile.

This is the full access message:  
“Have full access to all files you have access to  
Glide will be able to read, create, update and delete all OneDrive files that you can access.”

Why is this and how can I prevent it from accessing all of my Onedrive files and still give it access to the one spreadsheet that I want it to see?

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-requesting-access-to-onedrive-when-linking-an-excel-spreadsheet/69087/2 "2023-12-29T12:40:04Z")

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> **[Microsoft Excel | Glide Docs](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/excel#data-security-for-microsoft-onedrive)**
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> Connect your app to Excel Workbooks

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**Author:** ![Perry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/perry/32/62841_2.png) [@Perry](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Perry)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-requesting-access-to-onedrive-when-linking-an-excel-spreadsheet/69087/3 "2024-01-06T23:42:06Z")

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Thanks Jeff.  
I thought that might be the solution but unfortunately there’s only me in my organization and I’m the IT guy and I can’t do that.  
I don’t really use OneDrive for anything other than making backups of stuff so I just emptied it and now it doesn’t really matter.