diff --git a/ci/code_checks.sh b/ci/code_checks.sh
index 998e48d96d6b3..1fcaabff89023 100755
--- a/ci/code_checks.sh
+++ b/ci/code_checks.sh
@@ -421,7 +421,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         pandas.DatetimeIndex.indexer_at_time\
         pandas.DatetimeIndex.snap\
         pandas.DatetimeIndex.std\
-        pandas.ExcelFile\
         pandas.ExcelFile.parse\
         pandas.HDFStore.append\
         pandas.HDFStore.put\
@@ -966,7 +965,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         pandas.DatetimeTZDtype\
         pandas.DatetimeTZDtype.tz\
         pandas.DatetimeTZDtype.unit\
-        pandas.ExcelFile\
         pandas.ExcelFile.parse\
         pandas.ExcelWriter\
         pandas.Flags\
diff --git a/pandas/io/excel/_base.py b/pandas/io/excel/_base.py
index 8a287beac7afd..3405be626b5f3 100644
--- a/pandas/io/excel/_base.py
+++ b/pandas/io/excel/_base.py
@@ -278,8 +278,17 @@
     comment string and the end of the current line is ignored.
 skipfooter : int, default 0
     Rows at the end to skip (0-indexed).
-{storage_options}
-
+storage_options : dict, optional
+        Extra options that make sense for a particular storage connection,
+        e.g. host, port, username, password, etc.
+
+        For HTTP(S) URLs the key-value pairs are forwarded to ``urllib.request.Request`` as header options.
+        For other URLs (e.g. starting with “s3://”, and “gcs://”),
+        the key-value pairs are forwarded to ``fsspec.open``.
+        
+        Please see ``fsspec`` and ``urllib`` for more details,
+        and for more examples on storage options,
+        refer `here <https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/io.html#reading-writing-remote-files>`.
 dtype_backend : {{'numpy_nullable', 'pyarrow'}}, default 'numpy_nullable'
     Back-end data type applied to the resultant :class:`DataFrame`
     (still experimental). Behaviour is as follows:
@@ -1483,8 +1492,24 @@ class ExcelFile:
 
             Please do not report issues when using ``xlrd`` to read ``.xlsx`` files.
             This is not supported, switch to using ``openpyxl`` instead.
+    storage_options : dict, optional
+        Extra options that make sense for a particular storage connection,
+         e.g. host, port, username, password, etc.
+
+        For HTTP(S) URLs the key-value pairs are forwarded to ``urllib.request.Request`` as header options.
+        For other URLs (e.g. starting with “s3://”, and “gcs://”) the key-value pairs are forwarded to ``fsspec.open``.
+        
+        Please see ``fsspec`` and ``urllib`` for more details,
+         and for more examples on storage options refer `here <https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/io.html#reading-writing-remote-files>`.
     engine_kwargs : dict, optional
         Arbitrary keyword arguments passed to excel engine.
+        
+    See Also
+    --------
+    DataFrame.to_excel : Write DataFrame to an Excel file.
+    DataFrame.to_csv : Write DataFrame to a comma-separated values (csv) file.
+    read_csv : Read a comma-separated values (csv) file into DataFrame.
+    read_fwf : Read a table of fixed-width formatted lines into DataFrame.
 
     Examples
     --------
@@ -1492,7 +1517,6 @@ class ExcelFile:
     >>> with pd.ExcelFile("myfile.xls") as xls:  # doctest: +SKIP
     ...     df1 = pd.read_excel(xls, "Sheet1")  # doctest: +SKIP
     """
-
     from pandas.io.excel._calamine import CalamineReader
     from pandas.io.excel._odfreader import ODFReader
     from pandas.io.excel._openpyxl import OpenpyxlReader