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.

The next method to import a PDF file into Excel is to use its Data menu. It lets you extract data from an existing file, database, Azure, etc., and lets you insert the data into your Excel sheet.

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

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 ...

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

The benefit comes with a cost, however: Access can't import PDF form data directly, as it can from Excel and other sources. Use Adobe Reader and Excel as a solution to this problem.

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.