Yahoo! Finance offers financial statements for many companies. Although the financial statements are formatted similar to Microsoft Excel documents and look like spreadsheets online, Yahoo!

If you come across a table on the web or in another source that you want to import into Excel, there's an import feature that does the work for you.

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.

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 ...