The Scenario
A CX manager wrapped up a SurveyMonkey account audit last week and flagged 25 surveys for deletion: all zero responses, all over a year old, all belonging to former team members. Leadership signed off. The 25 survey IDs are in an Excel workbook in column A, verified and ready to go. She needs them deleted and wants a record of the outcome written back per row before she closes the workbook.
The bad version:
- Open SurveyMonkey, search for survey ID 1, find the survey in the list, click the three-dot menu, select Delete, confirm in the dialog, go back to the list.
- Repeat 25 times, switching between Excel and SurveyMonkey after every deletion to mark the row complete.
- On deletion 19, realize you accidentally deleted a survey you were not supposed to because the ID in the sheet had a typo you didn't catch — the wrong survey is now gone.
Twenty-five deletions across two systems, by hand, is how typos become problems. The approval was for the specific IDs in column A, nothing else.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the survey IDs from column A and deletes each one from SurveyMonkey, writing the outcome back per row so the workbook becomes the deletion record.
Read the 'Stale Surveys' Excel table and delete each SurveyMonkey survey by its SurveyID, writing Deleted into the Status column for each success and the error reason into Status for any failure.
What You Get
- Each survey ID in the SurveyID column processed against SurveyMonkey's delete endpoint.
- Status column updated per row: Deleted on success, error reason on failure.
- The workbook serves as the audit trail — no need for a separate deletion log.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some rows in the SurveyID column are blank — skip those
Delete each SurveyMonkey survey listed in the SurveyID column of the 'Stale Surveys' table. Skip any row where SurveyID is blank. Write Deleted or the error reason into the Status column for processed rows.
You want to verify zero responses before deleting
For each survey ID in the SurveyID column, first check the SurveyMonkey response count. If the count is 0, delete the survey and write Deleted into Status. If responses are greater than 0, skip the deletion and write SKIPPED — has responses into Status.
You want a timestamp column alongside the status
Delete each SurveyMonkey survey in the SurveyID column, write Deleted or the error reason into Status, and write the timestamp of the deletion attempt into a Deleted At column formatted as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM.
You need to verify zero responses, conditionally delete, log status with timestamp, and skip any with data — all in one pass
For each survey ID in the SurveyID column, fetch the SurveyMonkey response count. If 0, delete the survey and write Deleted into Status and the current timestamp into Deleted At. If response count is greater than 0, write SKIPPED — [count] responses into Status and leave Deleted At blank. Skip rows where SurveyID is blank.
One pass handles the pre-check, the conditional deletion, and the complete audit trail with timestamps.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook with your stale survey IDs, then ask it to delete each one and write the outcome back per row. For building the audit that feeds your next cleanup cycle, see the spoke on pulling a full account audit. For the full SurveyMonkey overview, see the hub page.