PDF Data Connector from Microsoft will help you import and use PDF data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Learn how to use it.

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.

How to Paste From PDF Format to Excel. The PDF extension is a file format used by Adobe Reader, a free software program. However, PDF files are read-only, which means you cannot edit them.

Need to extract data from PDF files into a spreadsheet so you can analyze it? Find out how seven PDF to Excel conversion tools fared in head-to-head tests with increasingly complex data sources.