Here are different methods using which you can convert a Word document to Excel format with or without using a third-party tool.

Tips You can convert OpenOffice.org text documents to Excel with the text import tool. Save the text document with the .txt file extension, open it in Excel and save it as an Excel spreadsheet.

You can take the information in a mailing label document and convert it to a column-based spreadsheet in Excel provided you you know how to prepare the document.