How to Use MyRouteOnline Excel Add-in

Note: This Excel Add-in is no longer being actively developed. While you can still use it, keep in mind that we can’t provide troubleshooting assistance.
This Excel Add-in isn’t compatible with Office 365. We recommend importing your list from Excel, using our Import Wizard. Contact us for more information.

1. Open Excel – There is an additional tab to Excel ribbon, named MyRouteOnline
   
   

   MyRouteOnline tab to Excel ribbon

2. Click MyRouteOnline tab and you’ll see two buttons Upload and Download.
   The first uploads your addresses to our route planner and the second, downloads your route-plan to your Excel.
   Only Upload is activated at the moment because you haven’t planned any routes yet.
   
   

   MyRouteOnline tab

There are two ways to upload addresses through this Excel Add-in:

1. Create a new address list
   If your list isn’t ready and you wish to create one. Click Upload to create a demo sheet.
   Click OK to test this demo list and click upload or copy paste your addresses under the grey headers line (number 4)
   
   

   Demo address list

   
   

2. Open an existing address list
   If your list is ready, open your file and click upload
   No changes will be made to your existing sheet – your list will be copied to a new sheet with new headers.
   
   

   Existing sheet

   
   Learn how to upload addresses to our route planner:
   1. Change the headers to match your data.
      
      

      Headers Dropdown Menu

   2. Click Upload to set your parameters and click Plan My Route.
      The same as you would do in our route planner, under “GOALS” tab.
      
      

      Goals – Set parameters

   3. Click OK to open the browser with your list in MyRouteOnline. Log in to plan your route.
      
      

      Open the route planner

   4. Click Continue to skip the GOALS tab and plan your route.
      
      

      Start route-planning

   5. Once your route is optimized, go back to your Excel and click Download, to download your route plan.
      

      Download route plan

      
      If you click before the routing process is done, you’ll get this error message:
      
      

      Route plan is not ready

      
      When your route is ready, click Download.
      
      

      Click Download route plan

      
      
      

      Downloaded route

      
      Additional sheet with your planned route. In this example it is named Route 1.
      If you planned a number of routes, each will be added in a separate sheet.
      
      

      New sheet with the planned route