The Scenario
You're a marketing coordinator at a 20-person agency. It's Thursday afternoon, and your weekly lead triage call is at 4 PM. The account manager just pinged you asking for the consolidated list of contact form submissions from the past seven days — names, emails, messages, submission timestamps, all in the shared workbook the team uses for triage notes.
The submissions are in Getform. The call is in 90 minutes.
The bad version:
- Log into Getform, find the right form, export a CSV of last week's submissions, open it, save it as an Excel file, copy the relevant columns.
- Paste into the triage workbook, realize the column order is wrong — Getform exported "timestamp" as the first column and your worksheet expects it last — manually cut and re-paste four columns.
- Notice that 12 submissions came in with duplicate emails from a bot run last Tuesday. Scan for them by eye, delete them, re-check the row count. It's 3:55 PM.
Your job for the next 90 minutes was supposed to be prepping the talking points for the call, not hand-editing a CSV.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your data, understands your column structure, and talks to Getform directly to pull submissions on demand — no CSV export, no reformatting, no manual dedup.
Open the triage workbook and type:
Pull all submissions from Getform form ID abc123 from the past 7 days and put them in this workbook with columns for name (column A), email (column B), message (column C), and submission date (column D). Deduplicate by email, keeping the most recent submission.
What You Get
- Rows written starting at A2, one submission per row, in the column order you specified.
- Duplicate emails resolved — only the latest submission per email address is kept.
- Submission timestamps formatted as readable dates in column D, not raw Unix integers.
- A summary message in the sidebar confirming how many submissions were pulled and how many duplicates were removed.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The form has 15 custom fields but you only need 4
Pull submissions from Getform form ID abc123 for the past 7 days. I only need name, email, message, and submission_date. Ignore all other fields. Write into columns A–D starting at row 2.
Submissions came in with inconsistent name formatting — some all-caps, some mixed
Pull all submissions from Getform form ID abc123 from the past 7 days. Normalize the name field to title case before writing. Put name in column A, email in column B, message in column C, date in column D.
You need to merge this week's pull with last week's existing rows without creating duplicates
Pull submissions from Getform form ID abc123 from the past 7 days and append them to the existing data in this workbook, starting after the last occupied row. Deduplicate against existing emails already in column B — skip any submission whose email is already there.
You want the full cleanup-and-triage setup in one shot
Pull all submissions from Getform form ID abc123 from the past 7 days. Deduplicate by email. Normalize name to title case. Flag any row where the message field is empty with "NO MESSAGE" in column E. Write into columns A–E, name/email/message/date/flag, starting at row 2. Then add a count in cell G1 of how many unique submissions were pulled.
The pattern is to combine the pull, the cleanup, and any flagging logic into one prompt — so you walk away from the sidebar with a triage-ready workbook.
Try It
Open your Getform triage workbook, paste in your form ID, and get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI to pull and deduplicate a week of submissions in one ask. Then see how submitting rows to a Getform endpoint works in the other direction — or go back to the Getform overview for all four methods compared.