How to Import PDF Files Into the Microsoft Office Database. Although many people often use Microsoft Access to store text information, you can add files to a database as well.

This way, users select data they wish to import into an Excel spreadsheet. Importing PDF data into Excel spreadsheets is part of Excel’s Get & Transform feature.

Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.