How To Turn A Photo Into An Excel Table (Android, iOS, And macOS)
Microsoft Excel has a handy feature that makes it possible to turn a photo into a spreadsheet table but, strangely, it only works on Android, iOS, and macOS. There's no reason given for why this feature isn't available yet on Windows or if it will ever be added. In the meantime, the user can grab a smartphone to snap a photo, then create the table, save, and open it in Windows.
Excel is the leading spreadsheet software in the world and is often considered a must-have app for office work. Arriving just two years after Microsoft first launched Windows, it packs serious power for crunching numbers, formatting tables, and presenting complex information in a more useful way. But, of course, the old computer saying 'garbage in, garbage out' still applies. So, if the entered data is incomplete or incorrect, the results given could be terribly misleading.
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Getting a large amount of data into the computer with ease has always been one of the biggest burdens for computer users. Microsoft recognizes that and offers plenty of ways to accept user input. One of the most impressive is the ability to capture a printed or hand-written table full of information from a photo and import that into an Excel spreadsheet without laboriously typing each number in the appropriate row and column. This isn't a new feature but might not be well-known, which is probably why Apple recently highlighted it in its Mac App Store. Users can do the same thing on an iPhone or Android phone. This option is found in the 'More' menu, which looks like three dots in the bottom-right of the screen. In the 'Insert' menu, tapping 'Data from Picture' opens the camera to get the photo.
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