Pull website data in Excel

Posted on:  02/09/2018
Pull website data in Excel

If you see data on a webpage and need to pull it into Microsoft Excel, don’t copy/paste. Excel 2016 has a feature called Get Data / From Other Sources / From Web.

In the example below I’m pulling population data for the 50 states from Wikipedia into Excel. If you were to select the data and copy and paste you frequently get images and bad data in Excel. The specific page I used is located here.

YouTube Video of pulling data from a webpage into Excel

Chris Menard

Chris Menard is a certified Microsoft Trainer (MCT) and works as a full-time Trainer at BakerHostetler - one of the largest law firms in the US. He runs a YouTube channel with 900+ technology videos that cover various tools such as Excel, Word, Zoom, Teams, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Outlook. To date, the channel has helped over 20 million viewers. Menard also does 2 to 3 public speaking events every year, presenting at the Administrative Professional Conference (APC), the EA Ignite Conference, the Support Staff Conference, the University of Georgia, and CPA conferences. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at chrismenardtraining.com/linked or watch his videos on YouTube at chrismenardtraining.com/youtube.

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