Excel – When I copy table data into excel, it ONLY pastes it into column A! How to fix this

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If I use the following link:

http://web.utk.edu/~dhouston/excel/exam1.pdf

to copy the table and paste it into excel, it will only paste the values into one long column in Column A (and each row has a value).

So Column A, Row 1 is Year, Column A Row 2 is All Families, etc. I used to be able to paste the text and it would stay in the table format (even if they weren't split into cells).

How do I solve this issue?

Best Answer

Save the PDF to your computer and open it in Adobe Reader. Hold the Alt key while selecting it (this allows you to use marquee/table select), then copy and paste it into Excel.

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