Question

I need to pull school names and abbreviations from this page on Wikipedia.

Abbreviations will go in column A and school names in column B.

I am hoping to use the feature in IE but I can’t seem to figure out if certain aspects of the page can be exported with exporting the entire page.

I can’t seem to figure out what settings need to be changed to get this to work.

Answer 1

If this is a one time thing you should be able to get close to what you need.
On a new worksheet, if you select the one choice available

and follow the directions importing it to you worksheet to range A1, you will have extraneous rows, but you can copy just A16:A380 to another worksheet.
While the range is selected on that new worksheet, choose DATA>Text to Columns and make the delimiter be “-” (a minus sign) this will give you basically what you need.
From this, sort A:B on A and remove the empty and [edit] heading rows you don’t need.

Because the data is not in a separate table you can’t automate this easily, but even that could be done with a macro, if this is not a one time effort.

This example is office 2003 but the same idea can be done with the other versions.