We love spreadsheets. And of course, once every four years, we also get mad about soccer. So why not merge both in to one awesome, frivolous and fun thing: Introducing….
Excel soccer game
The best part is you don’t have to run up to play this. Set your aim and let RANDBETWEEN() decide your fate.
Check out a quick demo of the game below
Download Excel Soccer Game – VBA File
Click here to download the game workbook. Enable macros to enjoy it. View Code to see VBA code behind this game. Go to “Calc” tab to explore the calculations.
How is this game created?
We use same ideas as discussed in Excel animated chart tutorial. Here is the brief outline of how I made this game.
- This is just an XY Chart with images for ball, goal keeper and aim marker.
- After user inputs the aim (X & Y) for where the ball should go, we generate a random position to which Goal Keeper will dive.
- We then calculate 100 frames
- Co-ordinates (x,y) for ball and goal keeper at each frame
- When “Shoot” is clicked, we just run a for loop in VBA to pick 1 frame at a time and show
- Oh yeah, some IF formulas to check if GK stopped the ball or not. If so, we stop the animation and show an image with goal keeper + ball.
- Lastly, we update the scores and show the progress as a sparkline
As this is a technical bit, I made a small video explaining the process. Check it out below (or on Chandoo.org Youtube channel)
That is all for now. Happy soccer & spreadsheets.
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7 Responses to “Extract data from PDF to Excel – Step by Step Tutorial”
Dear Chandoo,
Thank you very much for this and it is very helpful.
However, all the Credit Card Statements are now password protected.
Please advise how can we have a workaround for that
Hello sir,
How to check two names are present in the same column ?
Thanks and Regards
Hi, Thank you for the great tip. One problem, when I click on get data >> from file, I don't see the PDF source option. How can I add it?
I tried to add it from Quick Access toolbar >>> Data Tab, but again the PDF option is not listed there.
I am using Office 365
Hi, Thank you for your video. I see you used the composite table, but I when I load my pdf, it does not load any composite table. It has 20 tables and 4 pages for one bank statement. I have about 30 bank statements that I want to combine. Your video would work except that I can't get the composite table and each of the tables I do get or the pages does not have all the info. what to do?
Dear Chandoo,
How do we select multiple amount of tables/pages in one PDF and repeat the same for rest of the PDF;s in the same folder and then extract that data only on power query.
Thank you
Hi, Thank you for your video. I see you used the composite table, but I when I load my pdf, it does not load any composite table. It has 20 tables and 4 pages for one bank statement. I have about 30 bank statements that I want to combine. nice share
One bank statement takes up 20 tables and four pages in this document. I need to consolidate roughly thirty different bank statements that I have. Your video would be useful if I could only get the composite table, which I can't for some reason, and each of the tables or pages that I can get is missing some information.