The Scenario
It is Wednesday afternoon and your inbox has a message from legal: a list of 30 contacts who cannot be contacted as of today. They are clients in an acquisition that is being negotiated, and outreach needs to stop immediately. You have their email addresses. They are all in various Lemlist campaigns. You need them paused across all campaigns right now, and you need confirmation that it happened.
The bad version:
- Open Lemlist, search for the first email, find the contact, locate the pause option, click it, confirm.
- Repeat 29 more times.
- Lose count partway through, double-check by searching each email again to verify the pause took effect.
- Send legal a reply 90 minutes later saying it is done but you're not 100% sure about three contacts who had unusual account states.
Legal does not want "I'm pretty sure." They want a log.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads your Excel workbook and calls the Lemlist API to pause every lead in the list across all campaigns — and writes the result back into your workbook so you have a documented log.
Pause every Lemlist lead whose email appears in Column A of this workbook across all campaigns — write "paused" or the error in Column B
What You Get
- Every email in Column A processed against the Lemlist API with a pause call across all active campaigns.
- Column B populated with "paused" for each successful pause or the specific error for any contact that could not be found or paused.
- A timestampable, shareable log — the workbook itself becomes your compliance record.
- All 30 contacts processed in one prompt run.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some rows also have a "PAUSE" flag in a separate column
For each email in Column A marked "PAUSE" in Column B, pause that lead in all Lemlist campaigns and log the result in Column C
You need to pause only within a specific campaign
For each email in Column A, pause the lead in the Lemlist campaign ID in cell D1 only — write "paused" or the error into Column B
You want to notify legal with a count of paused contacts inline
Pause every lead in Column A across all Lemlist campaigns — write "paused" or the error into Column B, then count the total number successfully paused and write the count into cell D1
Full suppression workflow in one shot
Pause every lead in Column A across all Lemlist campaigns and log the result in Column B — then check each email against the master suppression list in Sheet2 Column A, and for any email NOT already on that list, add it to Sheet2 and mark "ADDED TO SUPPRESSION" in Sheet1 Column C
One prompt pauses the contacts and updates your suppression list. Legal gets a complete record.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any suppression workbook you maintain, then ask SheetXAI to pause every contact in the list across all Lemlist campaigns. See also: how to download the unsubscribe list for global suppression hygiene, or return to the hub overview.