Linking captivate to excel sheet?

Is there a way to link captivate to an excel sheet - where if a person puts in an identifying number; captivate jumps to a set slide?
What I'm trying to do is the following: I have an excel sheet with the 2 columns: Column 1 - EE ID and Column 2 - another number from 1-30. When the person puts in their EE ID (and is validated by Captivate), Captivate 'reads' the excel sheet and looks at Column 2 and jumps to a set page in the captivate project. Is this doable?

If I understand correctly, you want a person to jump to a particular slide depending on the ID they type into a box. Each ID corresponds to a specific Captivate slide, which no overlaps. (ID #1 and ID#2 don't both go to slide 4.)
Normally I'd use an Advanced Action. Instead of thinking of things as related information in columns that Captivate has to look at, think of it as instructions telling Captivate to make a series of decisions based on whether or not certain conditions are met. The person types their information in a text box, clicks a button, and Captivate executes the Advanced Action and goes through the process of deciding what to do: "If the EE ID entered is 1, go to slide 4. If the EE ID entered is 2, go to slide 5. Etc."
For more information about Advanced Actions and variables, check out Lilybiri's blog: http://blog.lilybiri.com/
Of course, I did say I'd normally use an Advanced Action. From how you've explained your scenario, it sounds like there would be many, many decisions to combine in one Advanced Action. (At least 30.) These days when things become that complicated I start thinking of ways to use JavaScript to make my life easier, either alone or in conjunction with an Advanced Action.
Anyway, first things first. Did I describe what you want to be able to do correctly, or did you mean something else?

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