Microsoft Excel's CHOOSECOLS and CHOOSEROWS functions are a game-changer if you want to quickly extract specific columns or rows from your data without nesting several functions in your formula ...

To extract and sort non-adjacent arrays in your data, nest the CHOOSECOLS or CHOOSEROWS functions inside your SORT or SORTBY ...

How to Extract Data From Multiple Spreadsheets. Extracting data from an Excel spreadsheet converts the contents of the sheets' cells to variables. The workbook can then paste the values into a new ...

Adobe Acrobat is the only other tool I'm aware of that can automatically extract table data from a PDF -- and it starts at $299. PDF to Excel costs zilch.

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it.