If you have Office/Microsoft 365 and don't see the PDF connector then you need to update Office. Find out how to get the latest updates here: support.microsoft.com/office/da36192c-58b9-4bc9-8d51-bb6eed468516
I'm running Version 2002 Office 365 ProPlus Build 12527.20988 and I am not seeing a PDF option under Get Data under Data. It does say that I am up to date as of 9/3/2020. Any additional thoughts?
Thanks, Myanda, this is an excellent video. I completed your Power Query Course in 2016. I am now fully retired but have maintained an interest in EXCEL and each week I receive a PDF file from a data provider that I need to put into a data table for my SMSF. I developed a VBA program to analyse the data once I have placed the data in a Table. I will try and use Power Query to do this step as it could be a time saver. Thanks again. The course was excellent and I would recommend it as it is the future direction being taken by Microsoft.
Thank you Mynda for this valuable video. This really helps when you only a receive pdf file and prevents time zapping manual work. Your email tips & tricks and video demos are awesome!
Thanks for the nice presentation, in case the excel navigator is showing pages on left and on Right hand side it shows page is empty? any Advise. Thanks
Not sure what you mean by navigator showing pages on left and right is empty. Please post your question and sample Excel file on our forum where we can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
Hi Amrish, I have a Power BI video here: th-cam.com/video/BsXliHbOFDM/w-d-xo.html and here: th-cam.com/video/Of2ML6TjkAI/w-d-xo.html You might also be interested in my courses: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/power-bi-course and www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-power-query-course
Thank you so much, the technique will help me so much. I did not know Power Query would be able to identify pages with tables and separate them from pages with text. super-amazing👏👏
Thanks, very much, I have this issue, I have different pdf files, these have different pages and tables, it may be possible to get the names of the queries so my query does not fail, since the files differ in pages and tables and my query fails
My pleasure, Peter. Sounds like the data is formatted as text and not a number. Please post your question and sample Excel file on our forum where we can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
Nice tutorial!! If You Need some Quick solution without a connection with the PDF file, You can import the PDF file in Word and there there are all the tables that You Need! After that You only Need to Copy and paste on Excel and edit what You want!!
Is there a way to the import data and select all tables automatically? For example, you only have to specify the location with multiple PDFs and the automation does the loading + selecting all tables
Hi Sean, I haven't tried multiple tables from multiple PDFs, but I know you can get multiple PDFs that all have the same structure with one table from a folder. You'd have to test it for multiple tables, but I would have thought so.
This is an interesting video for me, PDFs and Excel have been a nightmare in the past. Power Query is the answer, and it is a feature I’ll need to get a lot more comfortable with, thanks for the presentation Mynda, really good.
So I've set up a Power Query from a PDF, which involved quite a lot of tidying! We have an old system that provides messy PDF outputs for data, and I'd like to add new PDFs and get Power Query to do the same applied steps every time, so I can feed it new PDFs and get clean outputted data as separate tables. Is this possible?
hi, great video! question for you MyOnlineTrainingHub - I have several tables from PDF, they are basically one long table (22 tables in import) but only the first table has headers. Excel doesnt recognize or understand that columns from each table are the same so it ends up staggering them over. so if table 1 ends on column 10, then table 2 starts on column 11, table 3 on column 21, and so on. how do you make excel recognize or understand that you want it to simply stack all the tables on top of each other and recognize headers from first table you pick?
If you have a pdf that is always in the same format, is there a way to create a template so when you create an import button you don't have to do all the work every time? Is this too much for a macro to do?
In my PDF, I have 14 columns and 47 rows. I want to show each row in a single cell of power query so that the trailing spaces are not lost. Pls advise.
hi there... great video... But is the option of get data rom pdf available only in O365 or is it possible in older versions too.. pls advice how to do it... thanks
Please, i have a question. After we import the PDF file via Power bi, how can i select all tables at the same time. when i importe a long PDF file, i get a hundreds tables that i cannot select one by one. that may takes a life time. thank you.
I'm a mailer and sometimes get address lists in pdf. I'm going to try this at work. Probably going to take a few tries but if I can get it to work I'll look like a stud. We usually have to have the client send us a xls or csv to get their addresses imported to our addressing machine.
The page range [PageStart=7, PageEnd=8] must be exactly in that format (with parenthesis, camel case followed by comma)? Is PageStart and PageEnd variables or built-in within PQ? Can I use something like [Pages=7-8]?
Hi, I just got a recent update Nov 2021 of O365 & sadly it seems that the option for getting data from PDF is no longer available. Do you know a workaround?
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub I have Excel 2019 at home & the latest version of O365 Excel at work both have been updated within November 2021. Strangely both versions look the same when you go to the get data [option wise]. I hope Microsoft haven't withdrawn this PDF option. Thanks for the reply.
Hello. I'm wondering if Power Query can be used to import and process larger lists in pdf? F.ex. General Ledger or similar. Sometimes we get longer lists in that format and it would have been very useful to be able to edit them before they are taken over in excel. I have tried but unfortunately without success.
Hi, I use Excel on a Mac, do you know the nuances regarding Excel PC vs Mac? Like the shortcuts? Thank you (your channel is super instructive and easy to follow)
Thanks, Mynda! Quick question. Are we able to specify a conditional last page i.e. [StartPage = 3, If(condition, EndPage = 7, EndPage = 8] to cater for variable number of tables.
What If you don’t have Excel 365? I have excel 2016. What would be the best solution in this case? I’ve tried several attempts starting from PDF but the results don’t always work.
Check here for where to find Power Query in your version of Excel: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/where-is-get-transform-power-query-e9332067-8e49-46fc-97ff-f2e1bfa0cb16
Hi Shakthi, sounds like you need to update your version of Office/Microsoft 365: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/when-do-i-get-the-newest-features-for-microsoft-365-da36192c-58b9-4bc9-8d51-bb6eed468516?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
My PDF is a scan of a table and the Power Query just says "no data in table". Thinking the quality of the scan isn't good enough for the software to recognize. Any way around this?
Hi Carrie, Power Query can't read images in PDFs. You can try using Excel's new import data from a picture: th-cam.com/video/f94JJLVbZhU/w-d-xo.html Or if you don't have that version of Excel, you can try the free mobile app: th-cam.com/video/nfMv_xvMS7E/w-d-xo.html
Madam, I am re-framing my question I have Multiple PDF file in one folder, in some PDF when I see in Power Query it shows as Table 3 and for some PDF it shows the same content in Table 4. so importing becomes problem if I select the sample from table 3 then only data from all pdf from table 3 will be considered for processing. one common thing I have is table has one column Name as " LineNO". First I should find if PDF has a table having the column as LineNO if Yes then consider that as the table to process and move to next PDF and do the same process So Importing of Table having Column Name as "LineNo" is the condition that to be passed before Transform.
I have multiple excel in some excel data is available in table 3 and in some excel same data is available in table 4 . So how to transform both table? Pl support me
I manually imported tons of tables from pdf files in my work in the last 2 weeks and my boss found that I was taking too long to do the task. This evening I started to think there must be a solution to do this tedious task automatically and quickly, so I found out that Microsoft Office 365 can do this. I feel stupid for not having known this before.
Hello, I'm not good with Computer so this is a bit hard to understand for me... Let say I have multiple pdf files ( or I can combine multiple pdf files into 1 big file, separate by each page) which have the same format. Now I want to extract some specific data from said files using the "Get data -> From PDF" function. The problem now is I'm having multiple pages extracted and don't know how to apply the same configuration to each page and then combine them into 1 table... Can someone help me with this problem? Thank you so much in advance.
You can specify the tables you want to import from the PDF, or import them separately and then append the tables. If you get stuck, please post your question and sample Excel file on our forum where we can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
@M ML, it's not tied to a license level. You just need to update Office. Find out how to update Office/Microsoft 365 here: support.microsoft.com/office/da36192c-58b9-4bc9-8d51-bb6eed468516
@Claire Zhang, You just need to update your Office installation to get the new connector. Find out how to update Office/Microsoft 365 here: support.microsoft.com/office/da36192c-58b9-4bc9-8d51-bb6eed468516
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub thank you Mynda. Unfortunately I have tried but still can't update my office 365. It says the update is managed by the company. I think I have to contact IT department. But thank you for the link.
HI Mynda, I'm your silent follower and really like what you do. Power query is not been able to retrieve data from password protected PDF file. It is not getting forward; can you help me out please
If you don't see it then you'll need to update Office. You may be on the semi-annual channel which only gets updates once per year. If so, you'll need to speak to your IT people. More on the different update channels here: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-update-channels
Hi Mynda, how can I extract words one by one without spaces for a specific text from cell to others? please, i found a solution but it's complicated, sure you have something better
Hi Reda, I'm not sure what you mean. Please post your Excel question and sample file on our forum where we can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
I'm not aware of any limits to the number of pages so in theory it should work. Maybe test it on a smaller PDF containing the same data to see if it's the data that's the problem rather than the number of pages.
I'm using this method to import data , but when i'm trying to refresh using a diff pdf having similar data , i'm getting errors as Power Query picks up diff tables than i want , kindly help. I liked and subbed by the way , excellent video.
Power Query hard keys parameters based on the original PDF you import. If your new PDF has different tables and column headers, then you need to edit the M code accordingly.
If you have Office/Microsoft 365 and don't see the PDF connector then you need to update Office. Find out how to get the latest updates here: support.microsoft.com/office/da36192c-58b9-4bc9-8d51-bb6eed468516
in my office 365 i dont have option of get data from pdf. please help :(
@@AbidAli-sc1lm try to install all of upgrades of your windows 10.
@@AbidAli-sc1lm and next install all of upgrades of your Office 365
I'm running Version 2002 Office 365 ProPlus Build 12527.20988 and I am not seeing a PDF option under Get Data under Data. It does say that I am up to date as of 9/3/2020. Any additional thoughts?
George Schmidt and your windows? is it up to date?
Thanks, Myanda, this is an excellent video. I completed your Power Query Course in 2016. I am now fully retired but have maintained an interest in EXCEL and each week I receive a PDF file from a data provider that I need to put into a data table for my SMSF. I developed a VBA program to analyse the data once I have placed the data in a Table. I will try and use Power Query to do this step as it could be a time saver. Thanks again. The course was excellent and I would recommend it as it is the future direction being taken by Microsoft.
Thanks so much, John! It's lovely to hear that you found my course valuable. Enjoy your retirement :-)
What a nice woman! Very homely, cozy. I think you're a good mom. The children were very lucky. I wish you happiness! Oh, Yes, we talked about Excel...
Thank you so much!
What Excel version is this? There's not Get Data tab on Excel 2016. It only shows From Access, From Web, and From Text.
This is Microsoft 365. You won't have From PDF in Excel 2016, sorry.
I think if I watch your videos daily I will become a native English speaker 👌and thanks again for the upload
:-) and good at Excel!
Thank you Mynda for this valuable video. This really helps when you only a receive pdf file and prevents time zapping manual work. Your email tips & tricks and video demos are awesome!
Great to hear, Stephen :-)
Thanks for the nice presentation, in case the excel navigator is showing pages on left and on Right hand side it shows page is empty? any Advise. Thanks
Not sure what you mean by navigator showing pages on left and right is empty. Please post your question and sample Excel file on our forum where we can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
Thank you so much for this video! I have needed this so many times and it'll be so nice to actually have a solution for the next time I need it.
So pleased you can make use of it!
Glad MSFT finally GA'd this feature, thanks for the video!
Me too :-)
Hi Mynda.. great tutorial. Glad to see this functionality now included within Excel. Thanks for the lesson. Thumbs up!
Thanks for watching, Wayne!
Minda, do you have a power Query Power BI "101" --> video , I am a complete beginner on these two.
Hi Amrish, I have a Power BI video here: th-cam.com/video/BsXliHbOFDM/w-d-xo.html and here: th-cam.com/video/Of2ML6TjkAI/w-d-xo.html You might also be interested in my courses: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/power-bi-course and www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-power-query-course
Thank you very much for a clear and concise tutorial. I'm going to try it myself now with a bank statement.
Great to hear!
Well Done Mynda
All Your Videos Are Useful
Thank you! 😃
Mind-blowing and amazing tricks you have👏.
Loved to watch this 😁😀😀
Glad you liked it :-)
Thanks Mynda. So much flexibility with power query. Never thought of doing this with pdf. Appreciate you sharing. 👍
Glad you found it interesting, Monte :-)
Thank you so much, the technique will help me so much. I did not know Power Query would be able to identify pages with tables and separate them from pages with text. super-amazing👏👏
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks, very much, I have this issue, I have different pdf files, these have different pages and tables, it may be possible to get the names of the queries so my query does not fail, since the files differ in pages and tables and my query fails
Hi Jose, I think you'll need to create a separate query for each PDF and then append the queries together to make one table.
Thanks for the video, why can I not reformat the cells i.e. insert currency symbol and insert formulars to add up columns etc.
My pleasure, Peter. Sounds like the data is formatted as text and not a number. Please post your question and sample Excel file on our forum where we can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
Powerful!!! Thank you for the video. The same option extrapolated from Power BI to Excel. Thank you Mynda!
Yes, Excel eventually gets everything Power Query in Power BI has!
Thanks fr much needed video👍👍👍
You're most welcome, Mobi 😊
Nice tutorial!! If You Need some Quick solution without a connection with the PDF file, You can import the PDF file in Word and there there are all the tables that You Need! After that You only Need to Copy and paste on Excel and edit what You want!!
Thanks, Oscar! The word method is a workaround for those without Office 365.
Is there a way to the import data and select all tables automatically? For example, you only have to specify the location with multiple PDFs and the automation does the loading + selecting all tables
Hi Sean, I haven't tried multiple tables from multiple PDFs, but I know you can get multiple PDFs that all have the same structure with one table from a folder. You'd have to test it for multiple tables, but I would have thought so.
How could I select and append different tables from different files at the same time? Scenario: Select Tables 4, 13, 16 and 19 from pdf.files 1,3,5,7?
Another brilliant presentation, thanks. The functionality of Excel is very impressive! Wow!
Glad you liked it, Lloyd!
Super great amazing tutorial!
I spent hours on getting data from pdf
last week with csv things.
Glad you'll be able to use it, Jaeho!
This is an interesting video for me, PDFs and Excel have been a nightmare in the past. Power Query is the answer, and it is a feature I’ll need to get a lot more comfortable with, thanks for the presentation Mynda, really good.
Glad to hear you're liking Power Query more and more these days, Dave :-)
Not only getting idea for importing pdf n also to work in PQ in another dimension thanks 👍
Awesome to hear!
Very useful, thanks Mynda!
Cheers, Chris!
So I've set up a Power Query from a PDF, which involved quite a lot of tidying! We have an old system that provides messy PDF outputs for data, and I'd like to add new PDFs and get Power Query to do the same applied steps every time, so I can feed it new PDFs and get clean outputted data as separate tables. Is this possible?
Great to hear. You can copy the query and edit the file name it’s referencing to the new file.
hi, great video! question for you MyOnlineTrainingHub -
I have several tables from PDF, they are basically one long table (22 tables in import) but only the first table has headers.
Excel doesnt recognize or understand that columns from each table are the same so it ends up staggering them over.
so if table 1 ends on column 10, then table 2 starts on column 11, table 3 on column 21, and so on.
how do you make excel recognize or understand that you want it to simply stack all the tables on top of each other and recognize headers from first table you pick?
If you have a pdf that is always in the same format, is there a way to create a template so when you create an import button you don't have to do all the work every time? Is this too much for a macro to do?
You can just copy the Excel file containing the query and change the PDF file it's pointing to.
In my PDF, I have 14 columns and 47 rows. I want to show each row in a single cell of power query so that the trailing spaces are not lost. Pls advise.
Please post your question and sample file on our forum where someone can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
Another excellent video, nice voice and volume yo explain Power Query, muy claro con tus vídeos Mynda, congratulations! I am learning good!
Thank you! 😃
It's only available for Office 365 users. Yes. I save your time, you can now go look for different methods.
It may also be in Excel 2021, but otherwise definitely not Excel 2019 or earlier.
hi there... great video... But is the option of get data rom pdf available only in O365 or is it possible in older versions too.. pls advice how to do it... thanks
Only available in O365.
Very nice tip and Excellent explanation. Thanks a lot.
So nice of you, Claudio!
Great lesson. Clean and straight forward. All in all good quality as always. Thank you for sharing your content.
Thanks for the compliment, Philipp!
Please, i have a question. After we import the PDF file via Power bi, how can i select all tables at the same time. when i importe a long PDF file, i get a hundreds tables that i cannot select one by one. that may takes a life time. thank you.
Upon connecting to the PDF there should be a setting to automatically selected related tables, or something to that effect.
I'm a mailer and sometimes get address lists in pdf. I'm going to try this at work. Probably going to take a few tries but if I can get it to work I'll look like a stud. We usually have to have the client send us a xls or csv to get their addresses imported to our addressing machine.
Hope it works out, John!
The page range [PageStart=7, PageEnd=8] must be exactly in that format (with parenthesis, camel case followed by comma)? Is PageStart and PageEnd variables or built-in within PQ? Can I use something like [Pages=7-8]?
Hi Sal, no, you must enter the page range in exactly that format. Power Query functions are case sensitive.
Hi Mynda!Really Helpful Tutorial,It's Really Great We Can Now Import PDF Data Into Excel Using POWER QUERY..Thank You :)
Thanks for watching, Darryl :-)
Hi,
I just got a recent update Nov 2021 of O365 & sadly it seems that the option for getting data from PDF is no longer available.
Do you know a workaround?
It is still available, but perhaps you need to run an update on your installation and you probably need to be on the Current Channel.
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub I have Excel 2019 at home & the latest version of O365 Excel at work both have been updated within November 2021. Strangely both versions look the same when you go to the get data [option wise].
I hope Microsoft haven't withdrawn this PDF option.
Thanks for the reply.
Hello. I'm wondering if Power Query can be used to import and process larger lists in pdf? F.ex. General Ledger or similar. Sometimes we get longer lists in that format and it would have been very useful to be able to edit them before they are taken over in excel. I have tried but unfortunately without success.
Yes, Power Query can handle pdfs of multiple pages.
Hi, I use Excel on a Mac, do you know the nuances regarding Excel PC vs Mac? Like the shortcuts? Thank you (your channel is super instructive and easy to follow)
I don't have a Mac, so I'm not up to speed on all the shortcuts, sorry.
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub Oh, well that's ok. Thank you for replying
Fantastic information. I've enjoyed watching your informative video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks, Mynda! Quick question. Are we able to specify a conditional last page i.e. [StartPage = 3, If(condition, EndPage = 7, EndPage = 8] to cater for variable number of tables.
Yes, you'd be able to extract that data and then feed it into the Pdf.Tables formula. I don't have any examples of this I can point you to though.
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub Thanks, Mynda!
Hi, Excellent video. However, I was wondering how to append pages that are not continuous?
In the Navigator dialog box, check the option to select multiple tables and then select the pages or tables you want.
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub Thanks! I appreciate your reply.
Thanks, al lot for your valuable information.
Can you tell me, How I can add this option in office 2019?
This feature is only available in Microsoft/Office 365 licences. It's not something you can add to Office 2019, sorry.
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub Thanks alot for your fast response
What If you don’t have Excel 365? I have excel 2016. What would be the best solution in this case? I’ve tried several attempts starting from PDF but the results don’t always work.
There's not really a workaround. Might be best to look at some 3rd party software that converts PDFs to Excel.
Very insightful.Thank you
Cheers, Alex!
This is great! What about OCR? Can Excel handle PDF documents that are scans?
Excel Mobile has OCR for images. support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-data-from-picture-3c1bb58d-2c59-4bc0-b04a-a671a6868fd7
Can we import data from MS Word doc too?
Not yet, but you could save the Word doc as a PDF and then import it!
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub Of course 🤦♂️, should have thought of that 😁.
i was wondering, where can i get one of those green excel notebooks?
Not sure, Benjamin. It was a gift from the Excel team to us MVPs at the last Microsoft MVP summit.
Thanks Mynda. Very Helpful. : )
Thanks for watching, John!
Hi Mynda, I could not find from pdf option under from file, how to add that option there
You need Excel for Microsoft 365 to have this feature, or Power BI.
the function "get data " is not appearing in my excel version . please advice
Check here for where to find Power Query in your version of Excel: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/where-is-get-transform-power-query-e9332067-8e49-46fc-97ff-f2e1bfa0cb16
Hi Mynda, the option for import from PDF is missing, I am using the 365 version of Excel do you have an idea why this is happening? TIA
You just need to update Excel.
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub my 2016 excel is up to date and still not have the option ! what to do next ?
Another excellent video. Could you do an example where you transform financial statements from a set of published accounts?
If you have some sample data I can use I'll add it to my list. You can email it to website at MyOnlineTrainingHub.com
My office version is office 365 proplus.but I don't have this option under get and transfrom..could you help me solve this..? Or why was it..
Hi Shakthi, sounds like you need to update your version of Office/Microsoft 365: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/when-do-i-get-the-newest-features-for-microsoft-365-da36192c-58b9-4bc9-8d51-bb6eed468516?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
My PDF is a scan of a table and the Power Query just says "no data in table". Thinking the quality of the scan isn't good enough for the software to recognize. Any way around this?
Hi Carrie, Power Query can't read images in PDFs. You can try using Excel's new import data from a picture: th-cam.com/video/f94JJLVbZhU/w-d-xo.html
Or if you don't have that version of Excel, you can try the free mobile app: th-cam.com/video/nfMv_xvMS7E/w-d-xo.html
What version of excel are you using?????
Hi Adrienne, Microsoft 365.
Will this work with the on line version of excell?
No, it's only available on the desktop as far as I know.
Fantastic video! Great Transformation!
Thanks so much, Calvin!
Omg, my team is going to make extremely good use out of this function. Thanks for bringing it to attention!
So pleased to hear that, Jared!
Madam, I am re-framing my question I have Multiple PDF file in one folder, in some PDF when I see in Power Query it shows as Table 3 and for some PDF it shows the same content in Table 4. so importing becomes problem if I select the sample from table 3 then only data from all pdf from table 3 will be considered for processing. one common thing I have is table has one column Name as " LineNO". First I should find if PDF has a table having the column as LineNO if Yes then consider that as the table to process and move to next PDF and do the same process So Importing of Table having Column Name as "LineNo" is the condition that to be passed before Transform.
Please post your question and sample Excel file on our forum where someone can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
I have installed Office365 but import PDF option it doesn't show kindly help me in this regard,thanks
Hi Naseer, this feature is still in preview and only available on the Insiders channel: insider.office.com/join
Would be able to convert multiple pdf to one Excel sheet
Yes, but it would need to be imported with a separate query for each PDF. You could then append/merge the queries if required before loading to Excel.
I have multiple excel in some excel data is available in table 3 and in some excel same data is available in table 4 . So how to transform both table? Pl support me
Difficult to answer without seeing the file, but can't you simply get all the tables and then filter out what you don't need.
I am using Excel 2019 application in windows 10 I don't have option to get data from pdf . Can you please tell me how can I get that option?
It's only available in Microsoft 365/Office 365.
Can i use in Microsoft Excel 2019? I can't see From PDF in Get Data.
No, it's only available in 365 and possibly 2021.
This will be very useful one day. . Thank you.
Great to hear!
This was great. Althogh could you make a video Where u do this with a financial report?
Please share an example file you'd like imported with Power Query via our website.
I cannot see the command getdata from file->pdf.I have Office 365 of course. do you know why?
You need to update the installation of Office to get the new PDF connector.
What version of excel do you need to access this feature
Hi Ben, you need Office 365 or Microsoft 365. I did say this at the beginning of the video :-)
Excellent 👍
Many thanks!
Can you help me to sort variable in a customised order.
Please post your question and Excel sample file on our forum where we can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
I manually imported tons of tables from pdf files in my work in the last 2 weeks and my boss found that I was taking too long to do the task. This evening I started to think there must be a solution to do this tedious task automatically and quickly, so I found out that Microsoft Office 365 can do this. I feel stupid for not having known this before.
Better late than never.
Darn, do not have the get data, rom file option??
Bummer.
Thank you for this new added new learning.
You're very welcome, Nestor!
Hello, I'm not good with Computer so this is a bit hard to understand for me... Let say I have multiple pdf files ( or I can combine multiple pdf files into 1 big file, separate by each page) which have the same format. Now I want to extract some specific data from said files using the "Get data -> From PDF" function. The problem now is I'm having multiple pages extracted and don't know how to apply the same configuration to each page and then combine them into 1 table...
Can someone help me with this problem? Thank you so much in advance.
You can specify the tables you want to import from the PDF, or import them separately and then append the tables. If you get stuck, please post your question and sample Excel file on our forum where we can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
hi maam i have question in my data option from file from pdf option is not coming
Sounds like you have an earlier version of Excel that doesn't have this connector. You'd have to upgrade to get it.
I don't have pdf option!!! How do I get it there?
You need 365 for this feature.
Thanks for sharing. However it seems my office 365 does not have the function to get data from pdf😕. I can only choose from workbook, txt, xml etc
I also do not have the PDF selection available - I believe this feature is available only for Office 365 Premium
@M ML, it's not tied to a license level. You just need to update Office. Find out how to update Office/Microsoft 365 here: support.microsoft.com/office/da36192c-58b9-4bc9-8d51-bb6eed468516
@Claire Zhang, You just need to update your Office installation to get the new connector. Find out how to update Office/Microsoft 365 here: support.microsoft.com/office/da36192c-58b9-4bc9-8d51-bb6eed468516
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub thank you Mynda. Unfortunately I have tried but still can't update my office 365. It says the update is managed by the company. I think I have to contact IT department. But thank you for the link.
Yes, IT will have to do the update.
HI Mynda,
I'm your silent follower and really like what you do.
Power query is not been able to retrieve data from password protected PDF file. It is not getting forward; can you help me out please
No, it can't open the file if it's password protected.
the Get Data option is not there in my excel-2016.
No, Gopala, it's only available in 365 versions of Excel.
there's not pdf option in my ribbon.
You need to update your installation of Office to get the new PDF connector.
Plz help me, i have latest ms 365 but pdf import option r not showing🙄
If you don't see it then you'll need to update Office. You may be on the semi-annual channel which only gets updates once per year. If so, you'll need to speak to your IT people. More on the different update channels here: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-update-channels
Yes ...I will try this in my job 👍
Awesome 😊
Why do I get "Table is Empty" error? Is it because the data was scanned to pdf?
Scanned PDFs aren't true PDFs, they're images. You can use Import Data From a Picture instead: th-cam.com/video/nfMv_xvMS7E/w-d-xo.html
Hi Mynda, how can I extract words one by one without spaces for a specific text from cell to others? please, i found a solution but it's complicated, sure you have something better
Hi Reda, I'm not sure what you mean. Please post your Excel question and sample file on our forum where we can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum
How can we convert 100 pages pdf. Pls send the email I'll send the document.. I have tried but not happen.
I'm not aware of any limits to the number of pages so in theory it should work. Maybe test it on a smaller PDF containing the same data to see if it's the data that's the problem rather than the number of pages.
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub hi madam can u send me the email address. I ll send that pdf to u... 😊
what if i only want page 7 and page 9, skipping page 8?
You can filter them out in the query editor.
PDF option not show in my excel
It's only available in later versions of Excel.
Great video 👏
Cheers, Heiko!
I'm using this method to import data , but when i'm trying to refresh using a diff pdf having similar data , i'm getting errors as Power Query picks up diff tables than i want , kindly help. I liked and subbed by the way , excellent video.
Power Query hard keys parameters based on the original PDF you import. If your new PDF has different tables and column headers, then you need to edit the M code accordingly.
Superb!!
Cheers, Mo!
I have not this option in my office 2019
No, it's only available in Microsoft 365 licenses.
@@MyOnlineTrainingHub oh ok your are a you are a such nice person thank's
hi tanks for this nice tutorial
My pleasure, Reza!
Thanks, very useful
Glad it was helpful!
👍👍
Cheers :-)