If you want to ensure you are on the correct webpage, click the tab labeled Web View to get a preview of the page in a traditional HTML format. The Navigator window displays the components of the webpage in the left panel. In the From Web dialog box, paste the URL into the URL field and click OK.Select Data (tab) -> Get & Transform (group) -> From Web.If not, you can type it into the next step’s URL prompt.

Begin by copying the URL from the webpage ( assuming you are previewing the page in a browser).When the webpage changes, you will need to recopy/paste ( and potentially fix) the updated information. It’s the 50/50/90 Rule: if you have a 50/50 chance of winning, you’ll lose 90% of the time.Įven if you were to successfully transfer the information into Excel, the information is not linked to the webpage. If you’ve ever done this, you know what a hit-or-miss proposition this can be. In the “old days”, we would transfer the information from the website into Excel by highlighting the webpage table and copy/paste the data into Excel. The information we need is in a table that is part of the overall webpage. For this example, we will connect to the U.S. The first step is to connect to the data source.

Excel office web components