Workday OfficeConnect with Excel

This article provides step-by-step instructions for locating and installing the Workday OfficeConnect for Excel add-in.

Click Start and type Software Center

A picture of an end user searching for Software Center using Windows Search bar

2. Select Software Center and wait for it to launch.

3. Once Software Center is open search for "Workday OfficeConnect". This will return one item and you can select.

This is a result from an end user searching Software Center for Workday OfficeConnect

4. Once you click on "Workday OfficeConnect 25.2.7918" you will see an "Install" option that you can click on and install the add-in.

This is an image inside of Workday OfficeConnect that shows an install button to install the excel add-in.

5. When installation completes it will say "Uninstall" as shown below:


Image shows Workday OfficeConnect showing as installed with a greyed out "Uninstall" button.

6. Launch Microsoft Excel and either open a document, or create a blank workbook and you will see "OfficeConnect" on the Ribbon Bar (far right).

Microsoft Excel window opened to show the location of the OfficeConnect add-in

7. Click on the OfficeConnect tab and then click on "Log In". This will pop open a Log In window with a "Go" box. Click on "Go" and authenticate through Microsoft with your Stout Credentials.

This shows the Log In box when you click into the OfficeConnect add-in within Excel.


Keywords:
workday, officeconnect, excel 
Doc ID:
158548
Owned by:
Jeremy N. in UW Stout
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Created:
2026-02-11
Updated:
2026-02-11
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