how to get a list onames from excell to corel

I've done a very similar thing, and don't understand why you saved the excel file as a PDF.

Here's what I did with a table of 5 columns and 10 rows:

Excel worksheet:

1: set the gridlines and row/column headings to not display by going to the Page Layout tab and making sure that the Grid and Heading display boxes are not checked.
2: Select the cells you wish to have copied to CorelDraw, and copy them using CTRL-C or the Copy button.

CorelDraw:

3: Open a new file

4: go to Paste>Special.
a: To paste the data as an image, select Microsoft Excel Worksheet.

b: To paste the data as editable text, select Text.
     The data should be pasted correctly.  It should be separated into pages as required.
      If it doesn't have the correct alignment, You can convert it to a table by right-clicking and choosing Convert Text to Table.
      If it does not fit the image, you can scale it up or resize the page (Layout>Page setup>Size)

That works it for me with Excel 2010 and CorelDrawX4..

Jitest's method should work -- I've done it in the past in earlier versions of CorelDraw (before it had its own table support).

Two important things to be aware

• cells pasted in like this can only be edited on a machine that has excel installed -- which is fine if you are the only person who will work on the file. But if you give the file to anybody else to edit, they too must have excel installed.
• excel, not coreldraw, controls the printing and export of the file, which may also impose limitations