You can embed a PDF file into a cell of an Excel worksheet and then use Excel's security features to lock the object. This allows you to take advantage of both technologies.

You can have Excel make a spreadsheet in read only format for others, so that people can read its contents but not edit them, or you can enforce other content restrictions.

Use Descriptive Sheet Names One way to make your Excel workbook more accessible is by changing the names of the worksheets. As you can see when you look towards the bottom of your workbook, Excel ...

There are a few ways you can convert a PDF to Excel, including through Microsoft Office apps and Adobe Acrobat.

Need to extract data from PDF files into a spreadsheet so you can analyze it? Find out how seven PDF to Excel conversion tools fared in head-to-head tests with increasingly complex data sources.