Inserting Stock quotes

[Jeff]

Using Excel 2003, I want to insert stock quotes so that
they are part of a spreadsheet.

Ideally, I'd like a spreadsheet like so:

MSFT 28.18
DELL 36.25

As you can see, I want the price of MSFT and DELL stock
entered.

So far, I've been able to use Tools-Research-MSN Stock
Quotes-Insert Price-Insert Refreshable Stock Data, and
that gets a stock price in there (along with extraneous
information that I don't want, links to ads etc.)

The "refreshable" data seems to default to be not-
refreshing, and I must right click somewhere in the data
range to set the refresh wait.

My question is, if I plan on putting in, say 30 stocks,
am I really going to end up with 30 big paragraphs of
this inserted data (+ads/links etc.) , and then I must
separately right click on every one of them to update
them?

Isn't there an easier way to manage a stock portfolio
inside a XLS with Excel 2003

 

[Paul]

Open Excel
Under Data pull down menu -- Import external data ---
Import data--- look in "My Data Sources" ---select
quotes.iqy -- enter your stock symbols seperated by comms.

Next time when you want to regresh data-- just click "!"
refresh sign