# Updating Glide Tables

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/updating-glide-tables/44850
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [July 20, 2022, 10:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updating-glide-tables/44850 "2022-07-20T10:31:15Z")
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### Author: ![Jordan\_Known](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jordan\_Known](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jordan_Known)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 10:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updating-glide-tables/44850/1 "2022-07-20T10:31:15Z")

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Hi,

We built our app with glide tables as the primary data source. We want to update the data within, but aren’t really able to figure out how to do that. A few thousand rows and maybe 100 columns.

We tried to change the source to a google sheet but this requires us to rebuild each page in our app from scratch…

Is there a way for us to update the glide table with new data in a way that is faster than typing? Or do we need to start from scratch and rebuild our entire app with a different data source.

Thanks

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### Author: ![Rosewebstudio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rosewebstudio/32/12261_2.png) [@Rosewebstudio](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rosewebstudio)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 10:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updating-glide-tables/44850/2 "2022-07-20T10:39:45Z")

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Hey @Jordan_Known

Welcome to the community

This will help

> [@Glide Tables - add rows](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-tables-add-rows/43899/8):
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> You can upload a file to create a new Glide Table with the data: You cannot bulk-import to an existing table yet.

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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: [July 20, 2022, 11:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updating-glide-tables/44850/4 "2022-07-20T11:43:06Z")

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> [@robot Importing data to Glide by use of robot (RPA)](https://community.glideapps.com/t/importing-data-to-glide-by-use-of-robot-rpa/29008):
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> Challenge 1 In this moment of time it is not possible to import data (or paste chunks of data) into Glide. @Manu.n has shown a way to import a row at a time from Google sheets to Glide tables which is quite handy if you have not to much data to import. But if you have hundreds or thousands of rows this approach is not the way to go. 
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> > **Manu.n's approach - great for a smaller number of rows**
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> > \<a href="https://community.glideapps.com/t/import-data-from-excel-sheets-into-glide-table/20184/…

> [@Import Data From Excel & Sheets into Glide Table](https://community.glideapps.com/t/import-data-from-excel-sheets-into-glide-table/20184/18):
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> Hello, Failing to have an import function. I used a fairly simple method to import 3 tables of around 400 rows each, it’s not ideal, but it’s better than editing everything. For simplicity You have a Sheet Source table and a Glide Destination table. Add a column to your Sheet Source “Copy ok” of type boolean. Create a List style tab with the Sheet Source as the source. And as filter “Copy ok is not 1” Then use a custom action ADD row, with as Sheet “Glide Destination” then mat…