How to Convert Word Files to Excel Files

Copy and Paste
1. Open the Word file in Microsoft Word.
2. Click and drag to highlight the information you wish to bring into Excel, press 'Ctrl-C' to copy.
3. Open Microsoft Excel and click into a blank cell.
4. Press 'Ctrl-V' to paste' the Word content into Excel. Table data from Word transfers the best. Paragraph text is pasted into the first cell on each row, with one paragraph per row.
Save the Word file as HTML First
5. Open the Word file in Microsoft Word.
6. Select Click the 'File' menu and select 'Save As.' Choose 'HTML' or 'Web page' in the Save As Type drop-down menu.
7. Click 'Save' and you will have a file with the .htm extension.
8. Open Excel to a blank spreadsheet, select the 'File' menu and choose 'Open.'
9. Select the HTML file you just saved from Word and click 'Open.' Excel will read this file, placing any table data in separate cells and individual paragraphs on new rows, but the text is formatted a little better than with the copy-and-paste method.
10. Click in cells containing numerical table data and you'll see that they are completely editable in Excel. Excel maintains the format from the Word HTML document very well.
Insert Word File as an Object
11. Open Excel to a blank spreadsheet.
12. Select the 'Insert' menu, choose 'Object...' and choose Microsoft Word document as the type.
13. Click the 'From File' button, navigate to the Word file you want to bring into Excel and click 'OK.'
14. Notice that this object is not editable in Excel. It appears as an image on the spreadsheet. If you double click the object, however, Microsoft Word will open and allow you to edit the file. Any changes made to the file in Word are automatically transferred to the object in Excel when you save and exit Word.