If you have a list of items in a text file and you want to import data from a text file into Microsoft Excel, you can do that without writing them manually. An option in Excel allows users to import ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a PDF file, wishing you could just pull the data into Excel and get to work? Whether it’s a financial report, a client list, or a data-heavy table, PDFs can ...

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 ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.