Microsoft Excel’s mobile app lets you to take a picture of a table and paste the data directly into your spreadsheet. Here's how to use it.

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether.

Excel carries out text recognition and displays the data found in the right-hand side of your spreadsheet. There you can check the data or insert it directly into the spreadsheet.

Other devices may work differently. Excel allows you to import data from an image. It’s not a perfect method — some information may not translate properly — but Excel prompts you to review data that ...