Locate and select the PDF file you wish to import. Excel will analyze the PDF and present a list of tables to import. Select specific or multiple tables and click ‘Load’ to import them into Excel.

Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.

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

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