We expect this feature to be part of core Excel in the future. It is available as an Excel Add-In as of February 2013.
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We worked closely with SQL Server and Excel groups and integrated this technology into Excel in 2013 (as the “Public Data Search” feature in Power Query).Our web data research had tremendous impact of several Microsoft products and services over the years: In a spreadsheet setting, other modes of search are possible like entity augmentation and attribute discovery proposed in the InfoGather/InfoGather+ papers. New modes of search: Keyword search may not be the only way to search for structured information.Table matching and ranking: For Bing table answer, how do we identify the best table or part of table (if one exists) for a query with table intent? In Excel table search, how do we rank the tables in response to a keyword search query?.Query classification: For the Bing table answer feature, we want to show a table only if the intent of the query is a table (or part of a table), not simply because a table with great match is available.How do we identify this column(s)? For attribute-value tables, how do we identify the subject entity? How do we automatically distinguish these tables from each other? For relational tables, there is typically a column (or a set of columns) that contain the subject entities. How do we automatically filter out such tables? Furthermore, there are various types of tables like relational tables (each row corresponds to a different entity and each column corresponds to a different attribute) and attribute-value tables (each row corresponds to a different attribute, e.g., tables on ). Table classification and understanding: The vast majority of html tables are used for formatting/layout purposes they do not any contain useful content.
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The goal of this project is to extract structured data on the web (like html tables, lists, spreadsheets etc.) and make it accessible/searchable on Bing and Office 365.