importing data in excel

The action is called a "Web Query".
Type Web Query into the search box of the help file. In Excel 2000, you'll see "Create a Web query. Choose that and then click on the hyperlink to "retrieving data from a web page".

Here's some more information

http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/excel/webquery/samples.htm

You can find more details by entering web query in the search box at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/

web querys are okay but most web sites are really protected.
You may have do the import maually.
copy the information on line at a time.
have excell open then when you paste over do not slect the cell to paste the line. Slelect space to right ofthe sum and equal sign ...

If you are really looking to import stock information you can import it directly from MSN.com into Excel or into MS Money even.

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