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.

How to import Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into Apple Numbers This procedure works with .xlsx and .xls file formats. You can also import .csv and tab-delimited files.

Microsoft is putting the final touches on a feature for Copilot in Excel that will make it easy to important data from the web and other documents.

Importing data into Excel from other sources can result in long, messy strings of text you need to parse. We'll show you how.