The Scenario
You're three weeks into a client engagement and the Manus task list is a disaster. Tasks were named whatever came to mind during setup — "Research 1," "Research 2," "New task (3)," "Copy of New task." You have an Excel workbook with 25 rows: column A has the task IDs, column B has the clean descriptive titles you want each task to have. The client is auditing the project workspace on Friday.
The bad version:
- Open Manus, search for the first task ID, click into the task settings, clear the old title, type the new one from column B of your workbook, save, go back to the task list, search for the next ID.
- Mistype task ID six because you're copying from memory instead of copy-pasting.
- Get to task eleven and realize the workbook has been updated since you started — two titles in column B have changed — and you need to figure out which ones.
Twenty-five tasks at this rhythm will take ninety minutes you don't have.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the ID-to-title mapping and updates every Manus task in one pass — no UI navigation required.
Rename all 25 Manus tasks in this Excel workbook — task ID in column A, new title in column B — and mark column C as 'updated' for each successful rename
What You Get
- Every task in column A gets its title updated to the value in column B.
- Column C marked 'updated' for each successful rename.
- Any row where the update fails (task not found, API error) gets the error detail in column C instead of 'updated'.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some rows in column B are blank — I want to skip those
For each row where column B is not blank, update the Manus task in column A with the new title in column B — skip rows where column B is empty
The titles in column B need trimming before I use them
For each row, update the Manus task in column A with the title from column B — strip any leading or trailing whitespace from column B before sending it as the new title
I want to confirm each rename by writing a status back to the workbook
Rename all Manus tasks in this workbook — task ID in column A, new title in column B — and mark column C as 'updated' for each successful rename, or write the error message for any that fail
Rename the tasks, then pull the updated title back to confirm
Update each Manus task in column A with the title from column B, then re-fetch each task and write the confirmed current title into column D — flag any row where column B and column D don't match
Pulling the confirmation back into the workbook means you walk into Friday's audit with evidence, not just hope.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a column of Manus task IDs and a column of replacement titles, then ask it to run the rename batch. For related work, see exporting the full task list or go back to the Manus hub.