If you bank with Morocco's largest bank, you know the monthly statement is rich in detail and hard to work with as a PDF. When you convert Attijariwafa Bank statement PDF to Excel, every transaction becomes a sortable row: date, description, debit, credit, and running balance in separate columns you can filter, total, and chart. This guide shows you how to download the correct statement file, convert it cleanly, and handle the two quirks that trip people up most — French or Arabic transaction labels and Moroccan dirham number formatting.
Download the right Attijariwafa statement PDF
Start in Attijariwafa Bank's online banking or mobile app and open the account you want to work with. Statements are issued monthly, so pick the month you need and download the PDF version rather than printing to PDF from the screen view, which can split rows across pages and break the table structure a converter reads. Save the file with a clear name, such as attijariwafa-january-2026.pdf, so a folder of twelve months stays easy to navigate. Before converting, open the PDF and confirm it shows the full month: the opening balance, every transaction, and the closing balance. If a page is missing, re-download the file before you convert, because a gap in the middle of the month is much harder to spot later in a spreadsheet.
Also check which language your statement uses. Attijariwafa statements commonly show French labels, and some customers receive Arabic versions. Either way, the numbers and dates convert the same; only the description text differs, and you will translate the handful of recurring labels in the next step. If you hold more than one account, download one statement per account and convert them separately — mixing accounts in one spreadsheet makes reconciliation a headache.
Convert the PDF to a clean Excel workbook
Upload the statement PDF to a converter that reads the table structure instead of asking you to retype anything. A good conversion keeps dates in a real date column, amounts as numbers (not text), and debits and credits in separate columns, so you can sort and total immediately. After conversion, do a quick sanity check before you trust the sheet: add up the transactions and confirm the result matches the difference between the opening and closing balances. If the totals disagree, look for a row the converter split or merged, usually a long description that wrapped onto two lines.
Keep the original PDF untouched as your source record and treat the spreadsheet as your working copy. That habit matters if you ever need to prove a transaction to the bank or to an accountant: the PDF is the evidence, and the spreadsheet is the analysis. For a general walkthrough of the conversion process, see our guide on how to convert a bank statement PDF to Excel.
Clean up French labels and dirham formatting
Most Attijariwafa statements use a small set of recurring French terms, and learning them once makes every month faster. Virement means a transfer, prelevement is a direct debit, carte covers card purchases, and solde is the balance. Add a category column next to the description and translate each recurring label into a plain category such as rent, groceries, transfer, or fee. After two or three months, most of your rows will categorize themselves by description, and you will only need to handle new merchants by hand.
Dirham formatting needs one pass of attention. Moroccan statements often show amounts with spaces as thousand separators and a comma as the decimal mark, which Excel in a US locale reads as text. Select the amount columns, remove the spaces, and replace the decimal comma with a period, then set the column format to number or currency. Once the amounts are true numbers, you can sum by category, filter by size, and build a monthly total that actually adds up.
Turn the spreadsheet into a monthly budget check
With a converted month in Excel, the useful work takes ten minutes. Total each category and compare it with the previous month: card spending up sharply, ATM withdrawals creeping higher, or a new recurring fee you had not noticed. Attijariwafa accounts can carry account maintenance fees, card fees, and charges on international transactions, and a spreadsheet makes those visible in a way a PDF never does. Flag any transaction you do not recognize and check it against receipts or the bank's app before the month ends.
Repeat the process monthly and keep one workbook per year with a sheet per month plus a summary sheet. Over a year, that workbook shows your real spending pattern, which is exactly what you need for a loan application, a visa file, or a simple household budget. It also makes tax or accounting work far easier, since your income and deductible expenses are already totaled by category.
Frequently asked questions
Can I convert an Attijariwafa statement that is in French or Arabic?
Yes. The conversion reads the table structure and the numbers, so the language of the labels does not block it. You translate only the recurring description labels into your own categories, which takes a few minutes the first month and almost none after that.
Why do my dirham amounts show up as text in Excel?
Because the statement uses spaces for thousands and a comma for decimals. Strip the spaces and swap the decimal comma for a period, then format the column as a number. After that, sums and filters work normally.
Is it safe to upload my statement to an online converter?
Choose a converter that processes files without storing them, delete downloads from shared computers, and never email an unredacted statement. Our data security best practices article has the full checklist.
Should I convert one month or the whole year at once?
Convert one month at a time and combine the months into a single workbook. That keeps errors easy to find and gives you one clean sheet per month for comparison.
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