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Watch a short video and read the breakdown of the five Snip types: Text, Sum, Validation, Exception, and Table.

Getting started with Snipping

Snip vertically in Excel: press Enter after a snip to move down a row, or select a multi-cell range to create a column of snips at once.

How to move downwards while snipping

Snips can be customized with different colors and styles. Learn how to update the style of existing Snips and set the default style for future Snips.

How to customize cell styles of Snips

Extract text from PDFs, images, and other documents directly into an Excel cell using the Text Snip in DataSnipper for Excel.

How to add a Text Snip to a document

Extract numbers from a document and sum them directly into an Excel cell using the Sum Snip in DataSnipper for Excel.

How to add a Sum Snip to a document

Use the Validation Snip in DataSnipper for Excel to indicate that data in a document is correct according to your professional judgement, with a linked tick mark in your workbook.

How to add a Validation Snip to a document

Use the Exception Snip to indicate that data on a document is not validated by your professional judgement, and learn how the tickmark behaves.

How to add an Exception Snip to a document

Use the Table Snip to extract tabular data from documents with multiple tables across pages, snip all detected tables at once, and edit rows and columns.

How to extract tables from multiple pages

Use the Table Snip to extract tabular data from PDFs into Excel, including multi-page tables.

How to extract tabular data with the Table Snip

After completing a procedure, get a quick overview of all the Snips added in a document using the Document Viewer.

How to overview all Snips in a document

Right-click a Snip to edit its cell value, change it to another Snip type, or delete it for quick changes to a single Snip.

How to edit the cell content of a Snip

Quickly create many Snips linking to one or multiple cells in Excel using CTRL, copy, and paste.

How to connect many Snips to many cells

Understand what each Snip color means: Text, Validation, Exception, Sum, and Table Snips and the highlights they apply.

What do the different colors of Snip mean

Use DataSnipper's built-in OCR to recognize text in scanned documents, images, and PDFs. Covers v4.1 and v5.0 or later, supported languages, data residency, and common FAQs.

How to use Text Recognition (OCR) to enhance the text quality

Remove individual Snips or entire Snip sheets from your workbook

How to delete Snips

Common questions about creating, editing, and managing Snips

FAQs for Snipping

Tools and features for creating and managing Snips

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