# How to Skip Rows in Azure Data Factory Pipeline's Excel Source

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I was building a data factory source the other day and I needed to skip the first 5 rows. This is intuitive and easy within a text (csv) source as there is a setting to skip the first N rows. In excel there is a 'Range' option which has as an example 'A1:B10'.

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The example implies that you need to specify the entire area of the excel that you want to import. I simply put my starting point (5 lines down) and sure enough it took the entire excel, all columns, all rows, just skipping down 5 lines.

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The second reason is to help others find, what I believe are useful snippets to help others out.