In March 2019, Microsoft announced a new innocuous-sounding Excel feature called "Insert Data from Picture" to the Excel for Android mobile app. That capability -- which could revolutionize how ...

This feature sends an image to Excel's online image-recognition engine to process and convert the words and numbers into a table. And it can convert nearly two dozen languages.

Microsoft is using artificial intelligence to convert photos of data tables into a table in Excel. Users will be able to take photos of hardcopy data and import it straight into a fully editable ...

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.

Microsoft Excel is gaining the ability to insert an image directly into a cell, an oft-requested feature. The rollout is expected to begin in December 2022.