How to import a table from PDF into Excel

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I tried Abobe's pdf to Excel converter ... pretty useless for converting pdf tables into Excel rows & columns . Thoughts? thank you
 

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How was the PDF created in the first place?

I have had some luck doing this by opening the PDF file in Word then copying those tables to Excel, but it depends on how the PDF was created and whether those things that look like tables are really tables.
 
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If your are running XL365 then this video shows how to do it in Power Query. This option is only available with 365

 
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