# Is it possible to read a text from screen and store in a variable and save to an excel

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**Created:** [October 18, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-it-possible-to-read-a-text-from-screen-and-store-in-a-variable-and-save-to-an-excel/13810 "2018-10-18T11:57:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ziyaad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9de053/32.png) [@Ziyaad](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Ziyaad)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-it-possible-to-read-a-text-from-screen-and-store-in-a-variable-and-save-to-an-excel/13810/1 "2018-10-18T11:57:01Z")

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Hello, is it possible to read a text from screen, store it in a variable and save to an excel?

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**Author:** ![kazurayam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/kazurayam/32/333_2.png) [@kazurayam](https://forum.katalon.com/u/kazurayam)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-it-possible-to-read-a-text-from-screen-and-store-in-a-variable-and-save-to-an-excel/13810/2 "2018-10-19T02:03:08Z")

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In order to read a text from screen and store in a variable, you can use WebUI.getText(). Refer to

- [http://forum.katalon.com/discussion/2354/get-text-from-page-and-store-in-variable](http://forum.katalon.com/discussion/2354/get-text-from-page-and-store-in-variable)

Katalon Studio does not provide a built-in easy-to-use feature of creating Excel file and write anonimous data into \*.xls

But if you are willing to write some lines of code in your test case in Groovy, yes, it is possible.  
Refer to

- [http://forum.katalon.com/discussion/4203](http://forum.katalon.com/discussion/4203)