Importing tables from the internet to Excel 365 is straightforward and saves time. Simply copy the web page's URL and use the "From Web" function in the "Data" tab.

Start Microsoft Word and open the document with the table of data to import into Excel. Click the small hatch mark in the table's top-left corner, which highlights the table in default Word blue ...

In the code below, I load data.table and then use its fread() function to import the zip file. To read the zipped file, I use fread ’s ability to call shell commands directly.

Launch Base, the database component of OpenOffice.org. Click "Connect to an existing database." Click on the list box and select the "Spreadsheet" option. Click the "Next" button. Click "Browse ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in.