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Doesn't Excel already do this on its own? It's based on an IE control in my ancient version (2010), but perhaps it has been updated by now.
by ygra 4y ago
Doesn't Excel already do this on its own? It's based on an IE control in my ancient version (2010), but perhaps it has been updated by now.
- arkitaip 4y agoIts buggy and unpredictable. I feel the crawling engine hasnt been kept up to date.
- JoBrad 4y agoAnd it’s *so* slow, on every PC I’ve used. It’s usually easier to just copy and paste the table, if you can.
- vba616 4y agoThe point of automation is making sure you get things correct.
- vba616 4y agoIn newer versions of Excel, Power Query makes it easy, if you can be bothered to learn Power Query...it doesn't matter if the tables are a bit off, because it is a complete functional-esque language. Like SQL plus easy higher order functions. PDFs can often be extracted too in a similar way. I feel exhausted every time I see another thread on HN about what to do when you will not learn Excel & Office because it's for PHBs and secretaries.