Excel Sheet Linked to my IB account for automation?

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Looking for some guidance on linking an excel sheet to Interactive Brokers for automated trading, is this possible?

I have a scan with symbols and orders that I want executed if my price is met, I dont mind entering all symbols and bids/ offers manually into the spreadsheet as this isnt a high frequency strategy, would just be once a week.

I just want something that I can enter all my orders (buy or sell price, then exit or stop out price) and it can run when I am away from my machine. Willing to hire if someone knows or could help me get this up and running. Thanks
 
I don't have experience with the Excel API but I do know that MS Office was available in 32 and 64 bit versions. I have Office 2010 (32 bits) and the IB API requires a 64 bit version.
 
Maybe it was older versions (from IB docs):

Beginning in API v975, a new DDE API is offered which connects to TWS via a DDE socket bridge that uses the open source Java - DDE interoperability library JDDE. The newer API has some advantages over the legacy DDE API:

  • Compatibility with either 32 or 64 bit TWS (The legacy DDE API is only compatible with 32 bit TWS)
  • Additional functionality matching other socket-based APIs, especially in regards to multiple account structures
  • Full range of market data tick types
The DDE socket bridge API is fully backwards compatible with spreadsheets created for the legacy DDE API.
 
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