Retrieving Web Data from Excel

The World Wide Web is a great source of information. From stock quotes to product descriptions, many companies publish useful information on their Web sites. The most common structure used to present financial information is the table, which, like a spreadsheet, organizes the data into rows and columns. Excel 2007 makes creating a Web query easy by letting you copy data directly from a Web page into Excel and then create a query to retrieve data from the table you copied.

Retrieve Data from Web Pages

  1. Click the Data tab.

  2. Click From Web.

  3. Type the address of the Web page you want.

  4. Click Go.

  5. Click the yellow boxes with black arrows to specify which tables you want to import.

  6. Click Import.

  7. Click OK.

    Retrieve Data from Web Pages
    Retrieve Data from Web Pages

Copy Data from the Web to Excel

  1. In your Web browser, type the URL you want to visit.

  2. Select the data you want to copy into Excel.

  3. Press Ctrl+C to copy the data to the Clipboard.

  4. In Microsoft Excel, click the cell where you want to paste the data.

  5. Click the Home tab.

  6. Click the Paste button.

    Copy Data from the Web to Excel
    Copy Data from the Web to Excel

    Tip

    Tip

    When you paste data from the Web into Excel, you can click the Paste Options button to display a list of options. The last option is Create Refreshable Web Query, which displays the New Web Query dialog box.

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