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Import Data from a Picture to Excel Mobile

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August 27, 2020 by Mynda Treacy

A new feature in the Excel mobile app (iPhone and Android) is the ability to take a photo of your data and import it to an Excel worksheet. The import data from a picture to Excel feature is available to all mobile app users. No 365 subscription is necessary!

If you have a Mac with Microsoft 365 you can also insert data from a screen clipping on your clipboard, an image file from your computer or from your iPhone camera!

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How to import data from a picture to Excel

Step 1: Open the Excel mobile app on your phone.

Step 2: Select an empty cell where you want the data to be placed.

Step 3: click the import data from a picture icon in the bottom toolbar.

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Step 4: take a photo of the data you want to import.

Tip: ensure the orientation of the photo is portrait and well lit. This will help Excel read the data correctly.

Step 5: Use the pull handles to crop the image to select only the data you want to import.

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Step 6: Edit and make any necessary changes. Excel Data From Picture uses AI for more accurate results and with the use of machine learning models it will continuously improve over time.

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Step 7: Click Insert to finish the import of the picture to Excel.

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Mynda teaches several courses here at MOTH including Excel Expert, Excel Dashboards, Power BI, Power Query and Power Pivot.

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  1. Linda

    March 25, 2023 at 8:14 am

    I take a picture have some errors but hit insert anyway and nothing appears. What am I doing wrong ?

    Reply
    • Mynda Treacy

      March 25, 2023 at 8:35 am

      Not sure, Linda. Are you able to share the image on our Excel forum where you can also upload a sample file and we can help you further.

      Reply
  2. Jorge

    November 3, 2021 at 3:39 pm

    I tried but the camera never appears when I hit the button.

    Reply
    • Mynda Treacy

      November 3, 2021 at 9:23 pm

      Not sure why that would be, sorry.

      Reply
  3. Bhoj

    September 25, 2021 at 1:10 pm

    I am receiving invalid credential massage while using this

    Reply
    • Mynda Treacy

      September 27, 2021 at 9:54 am

      Maybe you aren’t logged into Microsoft 365 with a suitable account?

      Reply
  4. Torstein

    September 10, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    After watching your video I have tried importing data as picture to Excel. After some trial/errors I have got it working quite well.
    Do you know if this function will come in the desktop version?. It takes some steps to first import data to the mobile Excel and then export it to the desktop file. Perhaps a job for Power query?

    Reply
    • Mynda Treacy

      September 10, 2020 at 7:31 pm

      Hi Torstein, glad you got it working. I don’t have an ETA for this feature coming to the desktop, sorry. You could certainly save the file to OneDrive via your phone and then open it on your PC though.

      Reply

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