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Thanks Joe. &nbsp;I am sorry not to respond sooner, but my emails from Experts_Exchange are going to Junk. &nbsp;I just logged in to check and saw the answer. &nbsp;I am reviewing now.
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Thanks Joe.  I am sorry not to respond sooner, but my emails from Experts_Exchange are going to Junk.  I just logged in to check and saw the answer.  I am reviewing now.

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You're welcome, morinia. Sorry to hear you had trouble with EE email. Regards, Joe
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You're welcome, morinia. Sorry to hear you had trouble with EE email. Regards, Joe

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Is there a way to use a report number on a PDF file &nbsp;as a key to read information from an Excel spreadsheet?
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Is there a way to use a report number on a PDF file  as a key to read information from an Excel spreadsheet?

Reading data from a PDF to use as a key to extract data from an excel spreadsheet.

A Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format consisting of an electronic image resembling a printed document and can be viewed, printed, and electronically transmitted. PDF files can store various types of data, including formatted text, vector graphics, and raster images. The page layout defines the location, size, and shape of each page and each item on the page. The information looks the same no matter what device or program is used to open it.

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Adobe Reader), Acrobat (formerly Acrobat Exchange) and Acrobat.com. The commercial proprietary Acrobat, available for Microsoft Windows and OS X only, can also create, edit, convert, digitally sign, encrypt, export and publish PDF files.