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Copper Contributor

Feb 04, 2021

Excel - Get Data from PDF is Missing

I have users that are reporting that up until a couple weeks ago, they were able to import data from a pdf from this menu. That feature is now missing. We have licensing: So, why ...

Diamond Contributor

Feb 04, 2021

One more picture is missing - on which channel you are. It looks like

trobinson-q2
Copper Contributor
Feb 04, 2021
SergeiBaklan

I've tried updating Office/Excel, but it says we're up to date.
- SergeiBaklan
  Diamond Contributor
  Feb 04, 2021
  trobinson-q2
  
  You are on semi-annual channel which is updated with new functionality twice per year, in Jan in Jul. Monthly Enterprise channel was updated with PDF connector in Oct 2020 Release notes for Monthly Enterprise Channel releases in 2020 - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs , semi-annual shall be updated few months later and I didn't find PDF connector in Jan update for that channel Release notes for Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel releases in 2020 - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs
  
  Thus you shall wait till July or upgrade on Monthly Enterprise or Current channels. That's free of charge and above channels are stable enough. However, which channel to use depends mostly on your organization ITS policies, are they ready to provide more or less new functionality to end users or prefer to wait couple of years till all possible fixes will be deployed.
  - Raphael1175
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 15, 2022
    SergeiBaklan
    
    Hi, I am using Office Home & Student 2019 and I am missing the From PDF option as well. I am not a techie person and I do not understand what the channels mean. is there another way to get this option?

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