Hi Fanie,
You should be able to use Acrobat Readers selection tool to select the table. Then copy & paste into Excel.

John

"Fanie" wrote in message ...
Dear Bob,

This precisely that what I am trying to do also without resorting to buying
((I can't afford the software) an external software to convert Pdf table into
Excel. Did you manage to get any solution using the Excel "text to column"
functinality. if so, could you urgently share with us?

Your assistance will be highly appreciated.

Regards,

Fanie G



"cajun-bob" wrote:

Greetings all,

I am working on a project involving several dozen PDF files containing some
data in tables. I would like to be able to convert those PDF tables to Excel
so that I can work with the data in Excel spreadsheets.

The PDF files are located on several research websites that all happen to
use PDF.

I have Windows Vista Ultimate and I have a DELL Inspiron 9400. Presently I
am using Adobe Reader 8.1 to read the PDF files.

The simpler the solution, the better - as I am not as computer literate as I
should be.

Thanks.

Bob