There are many reasons to convert PDF to Excel. Whilst the PDF format is great for presenting your document in a format that is independent of the software, device or operating system used, it is not that great for extracting tabular data. If your PDF contains a table of data, you canât easily run analysis on that data, or import into your database. Therefore, converting to Excel (or CSV) enables you to work with and manipulate the data. Itâs the same with text in a PDF. If you want to edit the text or copy it, itâs much easier to convert the PDF to a TXT or Word document.
Excel VBA: Convert PDF to VBA code A new feature of Microsoft Excel 2010 for Windows comes with the VBA code capability. You can insert, copy, and edit VBA code without opening a text editor on the PC. In the article above, I wrote that a PDF file can be converted to Excel spreadsheet without opening a PDF file. As I explained earlier, PDF is not the best choice for storing tabular data. However, if you need to work with tabular data for some time and for some reason have lots of PDFs, you can add a VBA code to convert PDF to Excel spreadsheet. For example, consider the following table with 20 variables (we want to find average of 1, 2, 3, and 4), the variable “2” has not been used in previous tables. As this is a VBA table, I used the code function. =Worksheet. UsedRange(“B2:B20”). Range(“{B50:B50}”). Value This code simply.