I used this last week and it was brilliant. Took a screenshot of a table of data in a PowerPoint slide that was being presented to me over via Teams. Worked perfectly
There's an exceptional alternative to using a screenshot of a PowerPoint slide, if you can obtain the PowerPoint source file. 1. If the source file is not a .pptx file, it may need conversion to a .pptx type. 2. Change the source file's extension from .pptx to .zip. 3. Unzip the .zip file to create a new directory. The new directory will contain several subdirectories. 4. Open the new directory and browse the subdirectories. One will have the original image, spreadsheet, document, etc. file that was used in the PowerPoint. If the file is a spreadsheet, most of the process is regular Excel operations. Other file types may need more extensive operations. Notably, images - possibly in better resolution than a screen capture - could be cropped or edited to remove extraneous data before Excel's new convert feature is used.
I couldn't believe what I was reading when I saw this. Had to test it for myself since I've done so much manual entry and have been waiting for a better way. Phenomenal! With some data that didn't import well, like your darkened old fax-type image, I just had Excel "speak cells" to me as I proofed it to the original data from the Web. Not perfect, but a fantastic addition! Thank you for bringing it to us in your usual thorough and understandable way.
I tried with a grocery receipt because I was looking for a way to import those receipts to excel to track my expenses but also getting the item details to track categories aswell and not just the total. It surprisingly worked great!
The first two methods are definitely valuable/useful. The third - with a numeric keypad, I could enter the data faster than I could verify and correct. Thanks for demonstrating.
At the 8:42 mark " ... what do you think? Is it going to be useful to you? Prehaps to digitize old tax returns? ..." Brilliant idea ... but I think I would only use it in 'one-off' situations. I would much prefer importing 'pdf' data (which I think you covered about a year ago). But once again ... I only learn about these features from Prof Leila ... thank you ... thank you ... thank you.
In the last example, tweaking the image just a bit beforehand will help greatly. An app like Genius Scan to straighten and convert to black & white will work wonders with Excel's OCR. Sadly, our version of Excel doesn't have this feature, yet.
i second this comment. a bit of quick image processing and you could drastically improve the import quality. simple levels adjust would do the trick here.
Great feature for sure! Thanks Leila for the useful demo! Waiting for availability soon, but wish it should have come much before, when I needed it most! 😁
I giggled a little bit when I saw the newspaper results. In my prior job we did a lot of cleaning up of these kinds of data captures (via OCR software) and the decimal points were always a problem. (We always worked to improve the image as much as possible.) We always knew we were going to have to check them. I won't even get into the 1, l, i problems. Still remarkable to have this kind of thing rather than having to type it all from scratch!
Thank you, thank you and thank you. I didnt know Excel has this feature - it could be a game changer for me as it will save lots of time - this is a keeper.
I love your videos Leila, they make so much sense. I always look for your videos first before any of the others. Can someone maybe give me a timeline on when the features (especially for #1 - Screenshots) will be available? Has an announcement been made yet?
Except when your PDF files actually only contain pixel images, the better way probably is Excel's 'Import form PDF' directly. Does this not work for you?
This looks good still not coming up on my 365 yet, but I have been using copy paste unified text for years and that seems less complicated than picture to data and it is accurate.
In scenario #2, it could be done by pasting the web data to Notepad, then save it as txt format, then import the file in Excel. This way, the data accuracy should be 100%.
I'll try fine pics, and in case Sheet3 I think first you need to clarify the image then try to ocr it into excel, otherwise I'll retype it manually, it will be faster than check each number. Thanks for hint Leyla! :)
Hi Leila, your tutorials have always been excellent and highly professional. But, to try this lesson I don't find "Picture From File" in my DATA tab, May I know whether I got to make a setting? Appreciate your advice.
Check your license. I do not have the option in my ribbon in MS Office Professional Plus 2019, but when I open my Office 365, I have the button in my ribbon. This appears to only be available in 365.
Off topic: pretty sure that’s a picture of Lago di Braies (Pragser Wildsee) on your wall! Been there twice, awesome place, a must see when you visit the Dolomites :)
I have another tip, if you want to copy data-in optically tabular form-from a web page and then pasting into Word or Excel does not retain that tabular arrangement: LibreOffice! Not joking! 😃I'm using Mircosoft Office and Excel normally, but keep LibreOffice installed as a utility for some special cases. And the LibreOffice Writer is much better in preserving the layout at Copy & Paste from web pages. Next step is simply a new copy in Writer and then paste into Word or Excel. That has helped me so many times already. BTW, there is another problem where LibreOffice really does help: importing CSV files where fields contain multi-line text! Excel simply can't handle such multi-line cell content correctly. Just open such a CSV file with LibreOffice Calc, the save in Excel format-and the data is ready to be further processed with Excel. Hope, that helps somebody to save time and effort.
Hi, thank you in advance for your response. How you get the tab "from picture" I don't have it in my excel program, I have subscription 365 and I could not find it
Love the Feature, but like you Very MIXED results. Doing help files from Facebook, many people do post screen shots, so it's nice to input the data table. The biggest thing i see it NOT getting is when there is a header row Dark Cell color with White text. almost never gets it. Still, Awesome to have this.
Hi thanks for sharing the all the great info. 1 Quick question may be you can consider this one for you next video :) How can we split multiple worksheets in a spreadsheet to separate spreadsheets without losing or creating duplicates?
When I read the title I was hoping for Excel to give us the capability to convert raster images into arrays of pixel values based on brightness, contrast etc. Ironically, part of the coding for finding and importing the data is already doing this. Especially now with the dynamic arrays, it would be a game changer if Excel could do this.
"The first time Mac is ahead of Windows, at least in Excel." Nope. I had an original Mac... the tiny screen thing that I upgraded to 512K and added a 30 meg external hard drive to complement the single, internal, 3 1/2" floppy drive. I also had Excel 1.0 (still have the discs and manuals). Windows didn't exist. The IBM PC running DOS did not even have a version of Excel (Bonus question: What "high price" operating system was offered with the original IBM PC? {Hint: DOS was the low cost option at that time}). Yup... mid 80's stuff. That origin story is not especially meaningful anymore, but your statement kicked off some fun nostalgia. More to the point of the video, YES it will be useful. I often seek out engineering data (usually product specific) from the web. Sometimes it is a simple copy/paste away from being useful. In other cases, an image conversion (currently entirely manual on my time) is needed. I look forward to the general rollout to 365. ...and the answer to the bonus question is...(drum roll).... CP/M-86
Correct. Microsoft Excel was introduced in September 1985, as a Mac application. Windows 1.0 was introduced in November of that year. The first version of Excel for Windows was version 2, introduced in 1987. But it was essentially unusable like almost everything on the first two versions of Windows. Windows became actually usable when Windows 3.0 was introduced in 1990, the same year Excel 3.0 was introduced..
Hi Leila, loving the channel. Just wondering if you can help. I have the latest version of 365 but for some reason on my `Data Tab` the get data by picture option isn`t there?? I have checked a couple of forums and nobody seems to be able to shed any light on this situation. Any help would be much appreciated.
Hi Leila, thank you for your interesting video. I could not download the expected task-icon under DATA. Could it be because I have the student version of Excel?.
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I used this last week and it was brilliant. Took a screenshot of a table of data in a PowerPoint slide that was being presented to me over via Teams. Worked perfectly
There's an exceptional alternative to using a screenshot of a PowerPoint slide, if you can obtain the PowerPoint source file.
1. If the source file is not a .pptx file, it may need conversion to a .pptx type.
2. Change the source file's extension from .pptx to .zip.
3. Unzip the .zip file to create a new directory. The new directory will contain several subdirectories.
4. Open the new directory and browse the subdirectories. One will have the original image, spreadsheet, document, etc. file that was used in the PowerPoint.
If the file is a spreadsheet, most of the process is regular Excel operations. Other file types may need more extensive operations. Notably, images - possibly in better resolution than a screen capture - could be cropped or edited to remove extraneous data before Excel's new convert feature is used.
I couldn't believe what I was reading when I saw this. Had to test it for myself since I've done so much manual entry and have been waiting for a better way. Phenomenal! With some data that didn't import well, like your darkened old fax-type image, I just had Excel "speak cells" to me as I proofed it to the original data from the Web. Not perfect, but a fantastic addition! Thank you for bringing it to us in your usual thorough and understandable way.
I tried with a grocery receipt because I was looking for a way to import those receipts to excel to track my expenses but also getting the item details to track categories aswell and not just the total. It surprisingly worked great!
The first two methods are definitely valuable/useful. The third - with a numeric keypad, I could enter the data faster than I could verify and correct. Thanks for demonstrating.
You put so much effort into your videos. Appreciate it.
I cannot find the button to import data from an image in excel. Is there anything I need to change in the settings?
Having the same problem here
Again a very good, comprehensible practical tip. Thank you very much!
As always I really enjoy watching your videos
Thx for that video. Great to have found out the functionality is already existing in the ipad Excel app, too !
Excellent feature in MS Excel. Thank you Laila for detailed information and review
At the 8:42 mark " ... what do you think? Is it going to be useful to you? Prehaps to digitize old tax returns? ..."
Brilliant idea ... but I think I would only use it in 'one-off' situations. I would much prefer importing 'pdf' data (which I think you covered about a year ago). But once again ... I only learn about these features from Prof Leila ... thank you ... thank you ... thank you.
Thank you 😊 agree pdf data if available is accurate. That way you don’t have to worry about double-checking the numbers.
Thank you very much, Leila. I have not imagined that excel is now able to bring data from pictures. Great!
Some great tips as usual Leila! Hopefully I won't need to wait too long until this is available to me :)
Love your new hair colour by the way :)
This is exciting. I've tried the app with limited success. This will be much more helpful. Thank you as always.
Thank you! Glad you like it!
Wow, excellent! Thanks Leila!
In the last example, tweaking the image just a bit beforehand will help greatly.
An app like Genius Scan to straighten and convert to black & white will work wonders with Excel's OCR.
Sadly, our version of Excel doesn't have this feature, yet.
i second this comment. a bit of quick image processing and you could drastically improve the import quality. simple levels adjust would do the trick here.
It was the first thing that I thought to!
@@ilPapu99 do tell which version should we use to avail this feature of data from picture?
@@muhammadfaizan1863 you can use something like Krita to adjust levels.
OH WOW - I could have used this last night!!!! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Leila for your great job! It is a great instrument for all of us who works with a data enter!
Great feature for sure! Thanks Leila for the useful demo! Waiting for availability soon, but wish it should have come much before, when I needed it most! 😁
🙌 thanks Vijay
Crisp and Clear. Thank you for the video..!!
Can’t wait for this feature to be available. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you. Excellent video. you make it easy to understand and use the feature.
Excellent Leila... Thank you for sharing
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Nice..you explain this feature with amazing video 👍👍👍 thank you so much
Great feature - very good presentation, Thank you!
Excelent video one more time Leila. Just a question. How could you expand the ribbon?
01:48
Thanks.
I think - Leila stretched the width of the window across the second monitor
Definitely will be using this 👌 thanks Leila
I giggled a little bit when I saw the newspaper results. In my prior job we did a lot of cleaning up of these kinds of data captures (via OCR software) and the decimal points were always a problem. (We always worked to improve the image as much as possible.) We always knew we were going to have to check them. I won't even get into the 1, l, i problems. Still remarkable to have this kind of thing rather than having to type it all from scratch!
thanks leila for your help, i use some of you trucs... in my job and channel education it's so helpful.
Thank you, thank you and thank you.
I didnt know Excel has this feature - it could be a game changer for me as it will save lots of time - this is a keeper.
Very useful for scan documents as well as very old hard copies.
I love your videos Leila, they make so much sense. I always look for your videos first before any of the others.
Can someone maybe give me a timeline on when the features (especially for #1 - Screenshots) will be available? Has an announcement been made yet?
Nice! I don't have this yet...can't wait to get my hands on it
Great, thanks for sharing this knowledge 👍
This feature would save me so much time extracting tables from pdf to Excel!
Except when your PDF files actually only contain pixel images, the better way probably is Excel's 'Import form PDF' directly. Does this not work for you?
You read my mind, all I need to do now is wait for the feature TY L.
Masha'Allah. You are a very intelligent lady. Thanks for all the help
It's my pleasure
Amazing tool for screenshots, didn't know that
This is really helpful! Thank you very much Leila
You're a darling, Leila!!! This is Sooo awesome!
Thank you so much!!
Nicely demoed. Thanks!
Wow! That dissing roasted at 1:12
This looks good still not coming up on my 365 yet, but I have been using copy paste unified text for years and that seems less complicated than picture to data and it is accurate.
Seriously u saved my alot of time thanks alot
In scenario #2, it could be done by pasting the web data to Notepad, then save it as txt format, then import the file in Excel. This way, the data accuracy should be 100%.
Great feature, Thanks a lot for sharing.
Awesome, thank you
That's awesome! Thanks!
Eagerly waiting for this same feature is available in oneNote, so I am using that so far
This is very useful. Thx
I'll try fine pics, and in case Sheet3 I think first you need to clarify the image then try to ocr it into excel, otherwise I'll retype it manually, it will be faster than check each number.
Thanks for hint Leyla! :)
Thank You, awesome, you make my work easy.
Thank you so much! Saved me a ton of time!
Glad it was helpful!
@@LeilaGharani why does this no longer work? The "Data from Picture" button is greyed out and cannot be clicked"
... looks fantastic!
😃 what a great idea. 🤗Liela you're my best 🤩🤩
Pro tip: use Paint to make 3 additional lines. This will help excel to recognize each cell on newspaper.
წილადებს? ცალ-ცალკე ხომ ვერ ჩამოუვლი...
@@ninotsotsoria9788 ხაზი ჩამოუსვი 25 მაისი რომ აწერია იმის მარცხნივ რო უჯრა გააკეთო. წილადებზე თუ არ ჩანს კარგად წერტილი შეგიძლია დასვა.
Excellent video. It's probably OCR, optical character recognition.
thank you for this tips
Thanks! Leila 😊
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so help full for me
lot's of thanks
great one, thanks for sharing
Yo great tutorial :)
Thank you
Subscribed, thanks for this video
Thanks for the sub!
Hi Leila, your tutorials have always been excellent and highly professional. But, to try this lesson I don't find "Picture From File" in my DATA tab, May I know whether I got to make a setting? Appreciate your advice.
Check your license. I do not have the option in my ribbon in MS Office Professional Plus 2019, but when I open my Office 365, I have the button in my ribbon. This appears to only be available in 365.
Off topic: pretty sure that’s a picture of Lago di Braies (Pragser Wildsee) on your wall! Been there twice, awesome place, a must see when you visit the Dolomites :)
Very helpful
Great stuff. How did you create the Control Shift S shortcut for the Snipping tool?
Another Good Video
Oh shit this is going to save me a lot of time at work.
Great tip! Is there a way to copy a bar chart image from Word and have Excel recreate it in the same chart format?
One word is enough, thanks
Appreciate so much
Useful 👍
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Hi Leila, could you please introduce PDF convert to excel format, and the data is in a cell regularly
I have another tip, if you want to copy data-in optically tabular form-from a web page and then pasting into Word or Excel does not retain that tabular arrangement:
LibreOffice!
Not joking! 😃I'm using Mircosoft Office and Excel normally, but keep LibreOffice installed as a utility for some special cases.
And the LibreOffice Writer is much better in preserving the layout at Copy & Paste from web pages. Next step is simply a new copy in Writer and then paste into Word or Excel. That has helped me so many times already.
BTW, there is another problem where LibreOffice really does help: importing CSV files where fields contain multi-line text! Excel simply can't handle such multi-line cell content correctly. Just open such a CSV file with LibreOffice Calc, the save in Excel format-and the data is ready to be further processed with Excel.
Hope, that helps somebody to save time and effort.
copying data from excel image to excel sheet is possible? (with LibreOffice!)
Do you know how to use Excel cubes for data analysis, creating tables, updating data?
Hi, thank you in advance for your response. How you get the tab "from picture" I don't have it in my excel program, I have subscription 365 and I could not find it
you need the beta insider version
Love the Feature, but like you Very MIXED results. Doing help files from Facebook, many people do post screen shots, so it's nice to input the data table. The biggest thing i see it NOT getting is when there is a header row Dark Cell color with White text. almost never gets it. Still, Awesome to have this.
thanks
Hi thanks for sharing the all the great info. 1 Quick question may be you can consider this one for you next video :) How can we split multiple worksheets in a spreadsheet to separate spreadsheets without losing or creating duplicates?
When I read the title I was hoping for Excel to give us the capability to convert raster images into arrays of pixel values based on brightness, contrast etc. Ironically, part of the coding for finding and importing the data is already doing this. Especially now with the dynamic arrays, it would be a game changer if Excel could do this.
hi Leila, does it works with Google sheet as well? I couldn't find it. thank you!
Thank you for all videos, does this working with Arabic character
Thanks
"The first time Mac is ahead of Windows, at least in Excel." Nope. I had an original Mac... the tiny screen thing that I upgraded to 512K and added a 30 meg external hard drive to complement the single, internal, 3 1/2" floppy drive. I also had Excel 1.0 (still have the discs and manuals). Windows didn't exist. The IBM PC running DOS did not even have a version of Excel (Bonus question: What "high price" operating system was offered with the original IBM PC? {Hint: DOS was the low cost option at that time}). Yup... mid 80's stuff. That origin story is not especially meaningful anymore, but your statement kicked off some fun nostalgia.
More to the point of the video, YES it will be useful. I often seek out engineering data (usually product specific) from the web. Sometimes it is a simple copy/paste away from being useful. In other cases, an image conversion (currently entirely manual on my time) is needed. I look forward to the general rollout to 365.
...and the answer to the bonus question is...(drum roll).... CP/M-86
Correct. Microsoft Excel was introduced in September 1985, as a Mac application. Windows 1.0 was introduced in November of that year. The first version of Excel for Windows was version 2, introduced in 1987. But it was essentially unusable like almost everything on the first two versions of Windows. Windows became actually usable when Windows 3.0 was introduced in 1990, the same year Excel 3.0 was introduced..
what version are you using for excel, i cannot find the image option on my excel
Beta version. I know, once again I am looking for a cool feature that I don't have.
Very cool thing. But my Office Pro Plus 2019 doesn't have it. :(
Can you show us how can get charts prepared in excel sheet be copy pasted in Email body
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Hi Leila, loving the channel. Just wondering if you can help. I have the latest version of 365 but for some reason on my `Data Tab` the get data by picture option isn`t there?? I have checked a couple of forums and nobody seems to be able to shed any light on this situation. Any help would be much appreciated.
I love you so much ❤❤❤
Nice video. Unfortunately, I can't find the function in my Excel even though I use Excel 365. Is there a need for me to enable the function first?
Same problem with me
Great..it's new..👍
Hi Leila, thank you for your interesting video. I could not download the expected task-icon under DATA. Could it be because I have the student version of Excel?.
I'm having the same issue also
Cool feature.
I’m not getting the “Insert from picture” option in my ribbon. Is there something I need to enable?