How to use Microsoft's tool that lets you take a picture of a spreadsheet and import it into Excel

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Microsoft Excel now has image recognition technology that can make it easy to take a photo of a spreadsheet on paper and turn the data into digital format.

Microsoft on Friday launched a new tool inside the Excel app for Android — it's coming to iPhones soon — that lets you take a picture of a spreadsheet and import it right into Excel. When it works, it means you don't need to manually re-enter data into Excel, which is huge if you have a lot of printed data and can't copy and paste the spreadsheet you're looking at.

But, when I took a picture of a smaller spreadsheet, like one with a few columns for a grocery list, it worked just fine. My guess is this will improve over time, but it's worth trying since it's a free add-on feature for Excel anyway. Even if it's not perfect, you can get some of the data imported with just a picture.Now the app will open a camera viewfinder, which you should use to snap a picture of the spreadsheet you want to import into Excel.

 

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hmmmm

Useless🚮

deikamorrison and Marladukharan will probably find this useful like I will Unless y’all switched to Google Sheets 👀

Microsoft is getting better!

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