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.

How to Paste From PDF Format to Excel. The PDF extension is a file format used by Adobe Reader, a free software program. However, PDF files are read-only, which means you cannot edit them.

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.

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.

If you come across a table on the web or in another source that you want to import into Excel, there's an import feature that does the work for you.