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Permalink Reply by Raksha on October 12, 2011 at 23:02

One interesting feature of Excel is the ability to import Web pages. This means that if you have data on a Web site, it's very easy to convert it to an Excel spreadsheet, if your Web page is properly set up. This gives you the analysis tools in Excel available to your Web pages. It also allows you to import data from other Web pages into your spreadsheets.

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Permalink Reply by Raksha on October 12, 2011 at 23:03

How to Set Up Your Site

As Excel is a spreadsheet, it is made up of boxes or tables. Thus, if you're going to import data from a Web page into Excel, the best format is as a table. You can tell your spreadsheet to import every table on a Web page, just specific tables, or even all the text on the page.

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Permalink Reply by Raksha on October 12, 2011 at 23:03

How to Import the Data

Once you have the Web page set up with your tables identified, you need to import the data into Excel.

1. Open Excel.
2. Click in the cell where you'd like your data to start.
3. Click on the Data menu and choose "Get External Data".
4. Choose "New Web Query".
5. In the address box, type the URL of the Web page where your data is found.
6. Click in the "One or more specific tables on the page".
7. Type in the id of the table you want to import. If you're importing from a page where the tables aren't labled, you'll need to count the number on the page.
   Be careful of formatting. If a page uses tables for layout, this can impact the numbering of the tables - and Excel might import more than you expect.
8. Choose the amount of formatting you would like:
   • None - the data will be imported with no formatting
   • Rich Text Formatting - the data will be imported with formatting like bold, italics, and background colors
   • Full HTML Formatting - the data will be imported as close to the existing Web page as Excel can render
9. Click OK.

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