You just want to modify the content of a few cells in an Excel file stored in Sharepoint Online, using C#. A simple goal. Maybe your experience with Sharepoint APIs is fairly limited, so you spend a while researching. There’s questions over at Stack Overflow, that mention “CSOM”, “REST APIs”, “Graph” and various other cryptic terms, but aside the various limitations with each API, a concise and clear sample proves to be elusive.

TL;DR If you’re in a hurry to get to the sample code, skip right to it.

The goal of this post is to use Microsoft Graph to read and write to an Excel file stored in Sharepoint Online. As the main focus is getting to use Graph against Sharepoint Online just to get to an Excel file, in terms of operating against the file itself we’ll be content with just reading and updating the value of a single cell.

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