# How to connect/manipulate data inside Glide Tables from the outside

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**Created:** [February 28, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-connect-manipulate-data-inside-glide-tables-from-the-outside/23545 "2021-02-28T11:12:22Z")\
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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:** [February 28, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-connect-manipulate-data-inside-glide-tables-from-the-outside/23545/6 "2021-02-28T16:57:05Z")

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Tried to kind of explain things here.

> [@Sheet Edits Quota—1000 per month?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sheet-edits-quota-1000-per-month/12907/143):
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> There’s nothing wrong with using a google sheet as the data source for choice components, but I think what @Uzo is saying is that if you can migrate any data into glide tables, then it can help reduce the amount of data that has to syncronize between glide and google. If it’s static data, then no it’s not going to make much of a difference, but any sheets that have data updated as well as being located in a google sheet will count against sheet edits. There’s no functional difference between g…

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