Export a monday.com board to Excel, or the whole account

1. Why do workdocs have to go first?

Because no export route covers them. monday.com states it directly in its account export documentation: "archived boards and workdocs are not supported when exporting the account data", followed by the advice that "it is advisable to export your workdocs as a PDF before exporting your account data as not to lose them in the process".

That is unusual wording for a help page, and worth taking at face value. A workdoc is where a lot of teams keep the reasoning behind the board: the brief, the spec, the meeting notes, the decision. None of it is in the zip.

Exporting one is quick but strictly one at a time:

1. Open the doc and click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner.
2. Hover over Export.
3. Choose PDF, Word (.docx) or Markdown (.md).

Word and Markdown save straight to your downloads. PDF opens a preview first, where you can switch between portrait and landscape and pick which pages to include. If the docs are going into another tool rather than a filing cabinet, choose Markdown, because it is the one format another editor can actually read back as text rather than as a picture of text.

There is no bulk option. On an account with many docs this is genuinely tedious, and it is still faster than reconstructing them.

2. What are the two ways out of monday.com?

One board at a time, or the whole account at once. They have almost nothing in common.

Neither is a substitute for the other. The account export is broad and shallow: it gets everything, in a form you have to unpack. The board export is narrow and immediate. If you are leaving, you will use both, plus the workdoc PDFs from section 1.

3. How do you export a monday.com board to Excel?

Four clicks, from the board itself:

1. Click the three-dot menu at the top-right corner of your board.
2. Click More actions.
3. Click Export board to Excel.
4. Click Export in the window that appears.

In that final window you choose whether to export just the table or to include all updates and subitems, and whether to have a copy emailed to you. Take the updates. They are the conversation on your items, and this is the only route that carries them.

You can also export a single group the same way, from the three-dot menu to the left of the group's name, or an individual item.

Table views only

This is the constraint that surprises people, and monday.com is specific: "it is only possible to export the table views of a board (the Main board table, or any saved filters except for group by, sort, and conditional coloring, which are not supported in the export process). Board views will not be exported."

So a board whose value is a timeline, a kanban, a calendar or a chart exports as the underlying table and nothing else. The arrangement is not in the file. Neither is the conditional coloring that made the status readable at a glance, nor the sort order, nor the grouping.

monday.com adds that "it is not possible to edit, customize, or change the way a board is exported to Excel". The export is what it is.

The caps and the branding

A board export handles up to 100,000 items at a time, which is generous enough that most teams will never meet it. If you do, filter the board and export in passes.

Two smaller limits are worth knowing because they are silent. The Auto Number column is not supported and will not appear. And subitem updates are not exported at all: you can include the subitems themselves, but the conversation on them stays in monday.com. Only the parent item's updates come out.

Finally, a detail that catches people sending an export to a client: "it is currently not possible to remove the 'Powered by monday.com' branding message when exporting to Excel." The file carries it, and there is no setting to turn it off. Delete the row yourself after opening it, or expect your spreadsheet to advertise.

4. How do you export your entire monday.com account?

You have to be an account admin, and it lives in the administration area rather than on any board:

1. Click your profile picture in the top-right corner and select Administration.
2. Click the General tab, then the Account tab.
3. Scroll to the bottom, find Export account data, and click Export.

What you get is a zip of all the boards in the account, including shareable and private boards, plus any files uploaded to those boards. There is a tick box to exclude the files, which makes the export considerably faster if you only need the data.

Then you wait. monday.com says the export "may take up to 24 hours to complete", that "you can export all of your account's data once every 24 hours", and that every time you run it, all admins on your account will be notified. When it is ready you get an email with a download link, and "this link will only be valid for 24 hours from the time you receive the email".

Those three 24-hour windows stack into a real operational constraint. A request made on Friday can finish on Saturday and expire on Sunday, and you cannot simply run it again immediately because of the once-a-day limit. If the export is part of leaving, start it early in a working week, not on the last afternoon of your subscription.

5. Is a monday.com export a backup?

monday.com's own answer is effectively no, and it is unusually candid about it. At the bottom of the account-export documentation it recommends Rewind, a third-party app, for anyone who would "prefer not to worry about manual exports", describing it as automated daily backups with granular and full restore.

That tells you what the built-in export is for. It is a copy of your data that you hold, in a form you can read and re-import by hand. It is not a restore point, there is no scheduling, and it caps out at one run a day. If you want something that behaves like a backup, monday.com points you at a paid add-on.

Worth knowing before you decide the manual route is enough: the export excludes archived boards, and archiving is exactly what most teams do with finished projects rather than deleting them. A year of completed work can sit entirely outside every export you have ever run.

6. What does a monday.com export leave behind?

Gathering the exclusions from both routes into one list, because they are documented in different places:

• Archived boards. Not in the account export, and there is no route that covers them.
• Workdocs. Not in the account export. Export each one as PDF, Word or Markdown yourself.
• Dashboards. monday.com notes the account export "does not include Dashboards", with the reasonable caveat that their underlying data comes from boards that are exported. The views themselves are rebuilt by hand.
• The Emails & Activities timeline, which monday.com lists as not supported when exporting account data.
• Subitem updates, in the board export.
• Board views, grouping, sorting and conditional coloring, in the board export.
• The Auto Number column.

The pattern across that list: monday.com exports your items well and your arrangement not at all. Everything that makes a board feel like a workspace rather than a spreadsheet, including the views, the colours, the docs beside it and the dashboards above it, is outside the file.

7. How do you move a monday.com board to Jira, ClickUp or Notion?

monday.com is well served here: three major destinations read your account directly, so the Excel file and its table-view limits are avoidable. What none of them solve is the archived boards and workdocs problem from section 1, because those are missing at source.

monday.com to Jira

Jira ships a first-party monday importer at Settings → System → External system import, sitting alongside its Asana, Trello and ClickUp importers. It reads your account rather than the Excel file, which means the table-views-only constraint does not apply and your board views are still not carried, because Jira has its own. You need organisation, site or space admin rights to run it.

monday.com to ClickUp

ClickUp imports every monday board as a separate List, and asks one question that decides how the result looks. ClickUp documents both options: Groups as Statuses turns your board group names into the ClickUp statuses, while Status Column as Statuses uses your status column instead, and with that option "your board group names will not be imported into ClickUp".

Since groups are how most monday boards are actually organised, pick Groups as Statuses unless you have a specific reason not to. Map your users in the same run, because unmapped assignees are not preserved.

monday.com to Notion or Excel

Notion is one of the few tools with a documented monday.com import, so no file is needed. Expect the items and their fields to arrive intact and the board itself, the grouping and the colours, to need rebuilding, since Notion databases start as tables.

For Excel, the board export is already Excel, so there is no conversion. Delete the "Powered by monday.com" row before you send it anywhere, and re-export with updates included if you need the conversation on your items.

Destination importers were checked against each vendor's documentation on August 13, 2026.

8. How do you move monday.com boards into Breeze?

Breeze reads your monday.com account through the API, so there is no 24-hour wait, no expiring link and no admin gate on the way out. It connects with read access, shows what it is about to do, and changes nothing in monday.com.

Being precise about what that means, because monday.com's data model does not line up neatly with a task tool's: your boards become projects, your groups become the board columns, and your items become tasks. Time tracking comes across, which matters because monday.com is one of the few tools in this space that has real tracked time rather than estimates.

Running the import

In Breeze, open the menu in the top-right corner, select Settings, open the Import tab and select Import next to monday.com. The wizard runs in four steps: connect, choose the boards, match people, and review before anything is written. There is no field-mapping step, because every monday.com board has at least one group and those groups are the columns.

What comes across from monday.com

Two honest limits, and the first is specific to monday.com. Tags do not come across, because monday.com has no equivalent of them. Its closest analogue is a dropdown or status column, and those arrive as custom fields and statuses rather than as Breeze tags, which is the accurate mapping even though it means the tag list arrives empty. And files are skipped rather than linked, because monday.com's asset URLs are valid for one hour; Breeze reports how many it skipped so you can collect them yourself.

Large imports keep running in the background and Breeze emails you when they finish. Importing the same board again offers to update the project it created last time rather than making a second copy, and it never deletes what you have added in Breeze.

Still comparing rather than moving? Breeze vs monday.com covers the practical differences. Exporting is worth doing either way, because it shows you how much of a monday.com account lives in the boards and how much of it lives in the arrangement around them.

Common questions about exporting monday.com data

Can you export a monday.com board to Excel for free?

Board export is available to anyone with access to the board, so this is not a plan question. The gates on monday.com's exports are admin rights for the account export and volume for the board export, not pricing tier.

Why are your archived boards missing from the export?

Archived boards are not supported by the account export, and no other route covers them. If you need archived work, unarchive those boards before you run the export, or export them individually to Excel first.

Can you export a monday.com dashboard?

Not from the account export, which monday.com says does not include dashboards. The underlying data comes from boards that are exported, so the numbers survive and the dashboard itself has to be rebuilt.

Docs first, then boards, then the account

The order matters more here than the format does. Export your workdocs as PDF or Markdown while you still have them, unarchive anything you want to keep, then run the account export and give it a day. If you need one board in a hurry, the Excel route is immediate and takes updates with it if you tick the box.

And if you are moving the work rather than filing it, the files are a detour that loses your tracked time on the way. See exactly what Breeze imports from monday.com, then try it with one board before you move the rest.