Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.

Tables also make it easier to work with your data, offering built-in sorting and filtering tools as well as easy-to-use calculation features to help you get useful insights from your data. In fact ...

Manually select and copy the data you need from the PDF. Paste the copied data into a blank Excel spreadsheet. Use Excel’s “Text to Columns” tool to organize the data into structured columns.