About making HTML table data available to spreadsheets

When you create a table using HTML and assign it a unique identifier (ID), you enable spreadsheet applications to import that table's data over the Web.

For example, using Microsoft Excel, you can select a table on a web page, and then import the table's contents into a worksheet. The process of getting data in this manner is called a Web query.

Since the Web query recognizes the unique table ID, you can refresh the query (get updated data) even if the table is moved to another position on the web page.