As mentioned earlier we have moved to Seattle this Sunday. It seems like a great place already. Just that everything is more expensive than we are used to in Columbus. But I guess that is the premium we have to pay for being in a big city.
On to this week’s edition of excellent excel stuff posted online:
My friend Jon @ PTSBlog asks the critical question “what is the purpose of charting?” and answers it well with several examples. Of course we all think that the purpose of charts is normally to make information easier, not harder, to understand, but Jon enlightens us to other reasons why charts may be used.
What is the best way to color and label charts? Often when you have lots of data and need to depict it all in one chart and let the users find out the trends in it, we use color to make the job easier. Xlcubed blog suggests some ways to color and label the data to bring out critical trends.
When is Friday? If you work involves lots of payroll processing, then having a simple VBA UDF to find out when is the next Friday and when is the last Friday. Thankfully Daily dose of Excel has provided the functions for us.
Drawing in Excel – Manipulating shapes using VBA, Excel 2007 macro recorder no longer records your operations on shapes. That is where Newton Excel Bach‘s post on getting shape properties can be handy. Actually the post is a part of series of posts on Drawing in Excel. Read them if you work with shapes often.
Using Logarithmic Scale on your Chart Axis, excel chart axis options are pretty comprehensive. Jon points us to the logarithmic scale feature that can be very handy if you are depicting data that has exponential behavior and you want to remove that effect on the chart.
That is all. More excel links
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.