Convert First Abu Dhabi Bank Bank Statement to Excel
First Abu Dhabi Bank came out of the 2017 merger of NBAD and FGB, and its customer base shows that breadth: government-sector salary earners, payroll cardholders, corporates, and expats holding AED accounts next to USD or GBP ones. FAB statements are bilingual — Arabic and English share the page — which is fine to read and a disaster to copy-paste, because right-to-left text scrambles when dragged into Excel and the column alignment falls apart. Add the usual UAE paperwork pressure — a residence-visa renewal, a mortgage file that needs six months of stamped statements, a VAT return assembled from a mixed personal-and-business account — and manual transcription becomes an evening of squinting at DD/MM/YYYY dates and long transfer references. SheetMyBank sidesteps the copy-paste problem entirely by reading the PDF’s layout coordinates rather than its text flow, so debits, credits, and the running balance land in the right columns regardless of the bilingual formatting.
You can pull a FAB statement from the FAB Mobile app or online banking — select the account, open its statements area, and download the month or range you need as a PDF; monthly e-statements also arrive by email, usually password-protected, with the unlock convention noted in the accompanying message. Not every FAB statement starts life digital, though: visa and mortgage files often involve branch-stamped copies, and what you actually have may be a phone photo of a stamped page. SheetMyBank handles both — text PDFs are parsed directly, while scans and photos go through built-in OCR, all inside your browser with nothing uploaded. Whichever route the document takes, the same balance verification applies: each transaction is checked against the printed running balance, mismatches are flagged in the preview and exported to a Warnings sheet, and the result saves as Excel, CSV, QBO, QFX, or OFX. The first five pages each month convert free.
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First Abu Dhabi Bank statement FAQ
I still have old NBAD and FGB statements from before the merger — will those convert too?
Generally yes. The parser works from layout and balance structure rather than one fixed template, so legacy formats with dates, amounts, and a running balance column typically extract cleanly — and the balance verification tells you immediately if anything didn’t.
My mortgage advisor wants six months of FAB salary-account statements plus a spreadsheet summary — what’s the fastest route?
Download the six monthly PDFs from the FAB app or online banking and convert each one; you’ll get day-first dates, credits including your salary transfer, debits, and verified balances in proper Excel columns, ready to summarise. If the advisor’s tooling prefers another format, the same conversion saves as CSV, QBO, QFX, or OFX.
FAB emailed my e-statement as a locked PDF — what do I do about the password?
The delivery email explains how the password is formed from details FAB holds for you. Open the PDF with it, then save an unlocked copy — printing to PDF works — before converting, since encrypted files can’t be read by any converter. Privacy is unchanged: both the unlocking and the conversion stay on your device.