‘Insert Data from Picture’ is a special feature in the Excel mobile app for Android and iOS. It allows you to snap a picture of the data present in rows and columns on a paper and convert it into ...

Q: We receive documents in paper form, and I have to type information from them into our system. Is there an easier way to digitize this information into Excel? A: Excel allows you to extract data ...

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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. I first started using ...

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In many cases, you want people to enter a valid date, and no other type of information, when they're putting data into a cell in Microsoft Excel. For example, you might be asking people to record days ...

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 some ...

I'm going to be building a typical web-based database for a client that will hold property appraisals. I'm having trouble, though, with finding a way to get the data from the database to the Excel ...

You have a table on paper but need the data listed in Excel? Fortunately, there’s a simple trick for importing data on physical papers (or any other images) into Excel spreadsheets. Take your ...