This is part of a series on enhancing your Excel skills. You’ll find links to other stories below.

Getting printed data into a spreadsheet used to require a lot of typing—and, given how difficult many tables are to read, a lot of typos. But Excel makes the task a breeze: Just snap a picture of the table with your iPhone or iPad and Excel turns that photo into data you can edit on your Mac.

The process couldn’t be simpler: Click Insert in Excel’s toolbar; Control-click the cell where you want the table to start; and in the menu that appears, choose Insert From iPhone or iPad > Scan Documents. Excel will prompt you to use your device’s camera to scan the table or document. (You’ll get the best results with good lighting and by taking the photo head-on.) Click Save when you’re done.

Already have an image of a table—say, from a screenshot or a photo you snapped? Click the first cell of the worksheet, switch to Excel’s Data tab, click Data From Picture > Picture From File, and choose the image.

Whichever method you choose, Excel performs its optical character recognition (OCR) magic, highlighting any cells whose data it thinks you should double-check. Make any necessary corrections, then click Insert Data to add it to your workbook.

Here’s the table above imported into Excel, with formatting and borders added manually:

And that’s it! Now you’ll have more time to make sense of the numbers rather than entering them.