Insert a Picture Into a Cell in Excel. Lock the Picture in the cell so that it moves, resizes, and filters with the cells. Insert Picture into a Cell in Excel. Here are the steps to insert a picture into a cell in Excel: Go to the Insert tab. Click on the Pictures option (it's in the illustrations group). Microsoft has a cool feature in the Excel Smartphone app that allows you to convert picture to an Excel table. It is called ' Insert Data From Picture '. It lets you take a picture of the printed table or data and convert data into an editable Excel spreadsheet.
The Insert Data from Picture tool works in 21 languages including Spanish, French, and German. And more will be added soon. Here is a step-by-step overview of how to convert photos into Excel table data.
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I process financial documents which start in Word and end up either in
QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. Occasionally, a client will send a Word
document over that has financial tables that originated in Excel, but were
inserted using the Paste Special ‹) Paste as Picture command. When tables
are inserted this way, it causes me additional work because I need them not
as pictures but as text. However, since they are pictures, double-clicking
them does not let you access their original cells in Excel, it only lets you
access picture formatting options.
I have figured out a workaround, but let me ask this first:
Why can't Word let you extract the text from these pictures? I see no Macro
commands appropriate to this task.. Ironically, the text information is all
there, embedded in the picture (in other words, it has not been rasterized).
Why does Word not allow this?????
OK, the workaround. I copy the picture, switch to FileMaker, paste the
picture in a graphic container, print to PDF, open the PDF in Acrobat
Professional, then save the PDF as a Word document (!!!!). When the
document is opened in Word, VOILA - the picture is not only converted to a
table, it is a very nicely constructed one, right down to the correctly
sized cells (even cells that were merged together in Excel, where the chart
originated). One strange artifact of this conversion is that dollar signs
sometimes get swapped around so that they follow the number they belong to,
rather than precede it.. (WHY???)
There are always so many head-scratching WHYs whenever dealing with MS
products.. The biggest one here is: WHY can Acrobat access this information
(the text correctly arrayed in table cells) while Word cannot??? Is there
no way to avoid this crazy workaround?
Assuming not, I have the following plea: can someone explain how to
construct a macro that will:
1) determine the total number of picture objects (the kind that have this
embedded text in them) in the current Word document
Picture To Table Excel Formulas
2) go the next picture object and copy it (I can use AppleScript to control
how many times it goes to the next one by using the total number of picture
objects as a variable that controls the number of times this step is called
in a loop. As far as the FileMaker and Acrobat stuff, I can also use
AppleScript for that too).
Many thanks,
Image To Excel
Bill Planey
Insert a Picture Into a Cell in Excel. Lock the Picture in the cell so that it moves, resizes, and filters with the cells. Insert Picture into a Cell in Excel. Here are the steps to insert a picture into a cell in Excel: Go to the Insert tab. Click on the Pictures option (it's in the illustrations group). Microsoft has a cool feature in the Excel Smartphone app that allows you to convert picture to an Excel table. It is called ' Insert Data From Picture '. It lets you take a picture of the printed table or data and convert data into an editable Excel spreadsheet.
The Insert Data from Picture tool works in 21 languages including Spanish, French, and German. And more will be added soon. Here is a step-by-step overview of how to convert photos into Excel table data.
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I process financial documents which start in Word and end up either in
QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. Occasionally, a client will send a Word
document over that has financial tables that originated in Excel, but were
inserted using the Paste Special ‹) Paste as Picture command. When tables
are inserted this way, it causes me additional work because I need them not
as pictures but as text. However, since they are pictures, double-clicking
them does not let you access their original cells in Excel, it only lets you
access picture formatting options.
I have figured out a workaround, but let me ask this first:
Why can't Word let you extract the text from these pictures? I see no Macro
commands appropriate to this task.. Ironically, the text information is all
there, embedded in the picture (in other words, it has not been rasterized).
Why does Word not allow this?????
OK, the workaround. I copy the picture, switch to FileMaker, paste the
picture in a graphic container, print to PDF, open the PDF in Acrobat
Professional, then save the PDF as a Word document (!!!!). When the
document is opened in Word, VOILA - the picture is not only converted to a
table, it is a very nicely constructed one, right down to the correctly
sized cells (even cells that were merged together in Excel, where the chart
originated). One strange artifact of this conversion is that dollar signs
sometimes get swapped around so that they follow the number they belong to,
rather than precede it.. (WHY???)
There are always so many head-scratching WHYs whenever dealing with MS
products.. The biggest one here is: WHY can Acrobat access this information
(the text correctly arrayed in table cells) while Word cannot??? Is there
no way to avoid this crazy workaround?
Assuming not, I have the following plea: can someone explain how to
construct a macro that will:
1) determine the total number of picture objects (the kind that have this
embedded text in them) in the current Word document
Picture To Table Excel Formulas
2) go the next picture object and copy it (I can use AppleScript to control
how many times it goes to the next one by using the total number of picture
objects as a variable that controls the number of times this step is called
in a loop. As far as the FileMaker and Acrobat stuff, I can also use
AppleScript for that too).
Many thanks,
Image To Excel
Bill Planey
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