The Scenario
The budget cycle just ended. Your paid media manager sent you a list of 30 campaign IDs that need to be paused — all at once, not gradually, because the new budget period starts Monday and nothing from the old cycle should be spending. The list has been sitting in an Excel workbook since last week. It's Friday at 4:30 PM.
The bad version:
- Open Google Ads. Go to Campaigns. Search for the first campaign ID, find it, click the status toggle, confirm the pause. Move to the next one.
- After 10 campaigns, the UI resets your filter and you lose your place in the list. Start over from where you think you were.
- Finish all 30 (approximately — you're not sure you got them all), go back to the workbook, and manually check off each row. Realize at campaign 26 that one campaign ID in the workbook has a typo and doesn't exist in the account.
It is now 6 PM and you can't tell your manager with confidence that all 30 are paused.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the campaign IDs from your column, calls the Google Ads API to update each campaign's status, and writes the result back to the workbook — including the specific error for any ID that didn't resolve.
Read the campaign ID and new daily budget from columns A and B of my Excel sheet and apply those budget changes to each campaign in my Google Ads account in one batch
What You Get
- Status updated to PAUSED for every valid campaign ID in column A.
- "done" written to column B for each successful update.
- For invalid or unresolvable IDs, the specific API error message lands in column B so you know exactly what broke and why.
- The whole operation runs in one pass — no manual clicking, no lost place in the list.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some campaigns should be paused and others should have their budgets reduced, not paused
For each row in my Excel workbook, read the campaign ID from column A and the action from column C — if the action is "PAUSE" update the campaign status to PAUSED, if it's "REDUCE" update the daily budget to the value in column D — write "done" or the error back to column B
The workbook has campaign names, not IDs — you need to resolve names to IDs first
Look up each campaign name in column A of my Excel workbook in my Google Ads account, find the corresponding campaign ID, write it to column B, then update each campaign's status to PAUSED and write the result to column C
Some rows are marked as exceptions and should be skipped
For each row in my Excel workbook where column C says "pause" (not "skip" or "review"), read the campaign ID from column A, update its Google Ads status to PAUSED, and write the outcome to column D
The full end-of-cycle prompt — resolve, pause, and audit in one shot
For every campaign ID in column A of my Excel workbook, update the Google Ads status to PAUSED, write "paused" or the error to column B, then add a timestamp in column C for each row that succeeded, and summarize at the bottom how many campaigns were paused successfully and how many returned errors
One prompt handles the bulk update, the per-row audit trail, and the summary — so you can hand the workbook to your manager and be done by 5 PM.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook with your campaign ID list, then ask it to pause all campaigns and write the confirmation back to the workbook. Also see: Bulk Create Campaigns for the creation side, or back to the Google Ads overview.