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Copying and pasting Web tables into Excel?

Anonymous
2010-05-31T03:55:09+00:00

Hi, gang.  I'm trying to copy a spreadsheet from a web (the Forbes Global 2000 (http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/18/global-2000-10\_The-Global-2000\_Rank.html)) into Excel so that I can access the data without having to do laborious searches on the Forbes website.  Does anyone know if there's a simple way of doing this, maybe with an Import-from-Webpage function in Excel, or something similar?

For the record, I've tried screen captures and the regular copy-and-paste, but those features won't auto format to an Excel spreadsheet, and I'm loathe to input all that data myself.

Of course, I intend to contact Forbes to see if they have any data they can give out, but I'm not holding my breath....

Thanks,

Greg

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-02-11T05:29:08+00:00

    I had a similar problem where copying and pasting from a web page to a spreadsheet copied correctly in one computer but copied to a single cell in the other. Th solution was that I was copying in Firefox with an earlier version of Firefox (vn 14) when it did not work. Upgrading to the latest version  (Vn 27) fixed the problem. This had nothing to do with the version of Excel or the type pf paste.

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