One option is to cut and paste, the same as you would use for any other application.
to perform some kind of action on the data
You do not convert any data in Excel. A table is a layout to organize the data. If you want the data to look like it is in a table, then move the data to where you would like it to display.
One way would be to copy the data into a text file, using Notepad perhaps, and then save the file and open it with Excel. The text will then be in different cells. You could then copy that data back into the original Excel file.
You can copy data from Access and paste it directly into Excel. From a table or query, data can be selected and then copied and pasted into Excel. In that case, data changing in the original Access file will not change data in the Excel file. To do that there must be a link between the data. You can also import data from Access into Excel and from Excel into Access, again maintaining a link to the source if you want.
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It is data coming from another source, such as a database. It is external to Excel, but being used by Excel.
will not complete the copy or move procedure
Excel files will have data in them, so in that way they are storing data. Excel is not a disk or USB key or other such data storage devices. It is software, not hardware.
Without data, there is not much Excel can do. Formulas will have no data to work on. Charts will not show anything. Data is very important to Excel. There are things you can do without it, like draw shapes, but Excel is designed to do things with data, so you need to have some.
A chart is a visual representation of data in Excel.
You can interrogate data in Excel 2007 by using the filter and sort options in Excel. This re-organizes the data in a way that makes it easy to analyze and evaluate the data.
Not sure if you want to know how to export data from Excel or import data into Excel. Either way, the answer depends on what you are trying to do. You can export data from Excel by using the SaveAs option to save the file in a format you choose. If you are trying to use another program to extract data from Excel, you will need to use the options available to that specific program.