What this course is about
How to move a table from a photo, scan or PDF into Excel without retyping: recognition as delimited text, splitting into columns, checking totals and handling complex headers.
A paper log, a duty roster on the wall, a table in a scanned PDF that will not copy. Retyping tables like these into Excel is slow and error-prone. {AI} reads a table from a photo and returns it as text that splits neatly into Excel columns. You do the pasting, and the heart of this course is making sure not a single number got lost.
What you will learn
- Photographing a Table
- First, a Table Profile
- The Table as Delimited Text
- What a Correct Answer Looks Like
- Pasting into Excel
- When the Numbers Will Not Add Up
- Checking the Totals
- You Found a Difference: What Next
- Merged Cells and Multi-Level Headers
- Case Study: A Duty Roster with Merged Cells
- A Table Across Several Pages
- Assembling and Checking a Multi-Page Table
What's inside
- Four PDF versions of the course: for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Microsoft Copilot — each explains where to find the features you need in that assistant.
- 13 ready-to-use prompts and a prompt library you can copy from.
- Step-by-step tasks, before-and-after examples and a one-page cheat sheet.
- Free updates when the AI assistants change.
Who it's for
Office workers, managers, teachers, freelancers and small-business owners who want practical results from AI without technical knowledge.
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