Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.

PDF Data Connector from Microsoft will help you import and use PDF data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Learn how to use it.

Need to extract data from PDF files into a spreadsheet so you can analyze it? Find out how seven PDF to Excel conversion tools fared in head-to-head tests with increasingly complex data sources.

Microsoft Excel’s mobile app lets you to take a picture of a table and paste the data directly into your spreadsheet. Here's how to use it.

Other devices may work differently. Excel allows you to import data from an image. It’s not a perfect method — some information may not translate properly — but Excel prompts you to review data that ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it.

You have a table on paper but need the data listed in Excel? There's a simple trick for importing.