Take a picture of something with the Microsoft Excel mobile app, and it will turn the photograph into editable text inside a spreadsheet. Here's how to do it.

Even importing data can be a complicated process. But Microsoft Excel’s mobile app allows you to take a picture of a table and paste the information directly into your spreadsheet.

You can capture an image of a printed data table and import its information into Excel via Insert Data from Picture feature in the Mobile app for Android & iOS ...

Instead, you can take a screenshot of the data and import it into your Excel worksheet. With the PDF, image, web page, or other source open, press PrtScn on your Windows keyboard.

The new import feature uses image recognition technology to identify all of the information on the page and convert it into an Excel spreadsheet in the app.

Importing Data Into Microsoft Excel 2007 From Databases and Web Sites Simplify the way you move data into a spreadsheet.

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.