You have a table on paper but need the data listed in Excel? There's a simple trick for importing.

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 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.

Figure 2: Select the tables you want to import into Excel from the website in the dialog box. When you have selected the tables that you want to import into Excel, click Import. When the Import Data ...

Microsoft is putting the final touches on a feature for Copilot in Excel that will make it easy to important data from the web and other documents.

Importing Data Into Microsoft Excel 2007 From Databases and Web Sites Simplify the way you move data into a spreadsheet.