Press OK.Ī table will appear (poorly formatted) which will be all highlighted. A dialogue box will pop up and under Separate Text at, you should select Other and click in the little box next to it delete what is there and type in a space. Now convert this into a table by highlighting it all (you can easily do this by pressing Ctrl A) and selecting Table > Convert > Text to Table. Open a new Word document and paste the copied text by pressing Ctrl V. Step 2: Copy this into Word and convert to a table To copy the table, click on Select and click and drag the cursor to highlight the whole table. The first page of Table 10 from the Spring 2007 version of the European Economy Statistical Annex is shown below. This shows economic growth rates for all 27 EU countries plus the USA and Japan (see site 8 in our links to free economic data) Step 1: Open the relevant PDF file and select and copy table We will use Table 10 from the European Economy Statistical Annex.
If such services are not working for you, there is also a conversion process that involves moving the data first into Word and then into Excel. There are online services to convert data tables from PDF to spreadsheet for example, , PDF2Excel, SmallPDF, or DocsZone. I usually just cut out all the path information and leave the original file name so I can actually read it.Many sources of data are PDF files. While still in the dialog box noted above, click the "Change Icon" button, and you will have the opportunity to edit the label. However, embedding a large number of files can make your spreadsheet file size huge.īy default, the icon will show the entire path to the file in the icon label, which can make it unreadable. This works with practically any type of file, including JPEGs and PDFs. Now your file will be embedded in the Excel file as a clickable icon, and it will move with the cell you put it in if you reorganize the worksheet. In the resulting dialog box, click the "Create from File" tabĬheck the box that says "Display as Icon"īrowse to the file you want and select it You cannot drag and drop, but you CAN do exactly what the OP is asking by inserting the files as objects within the spreadsheet. I realize this is an old post, but in case someone else gets here with the same question.
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