Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers. After overhauling Excel with its own live custom data types last year, Microsoft is opening up Excel to give developers the ...

To experience the breadth of Excel’s data visualization offerings, let’s take a tour of some of the most useful charts, starting with the basic ones and moving to the more advanced. To follow along, ...

Microsoft is finally giving businesses what they really want: data types based on their own customer data.

You can convert text in Excel to linked data types. This is referred to as “linked” data types because the data is connected to an online data source.

The Food Data Type converts cells with food to nutrition details. Learn how to use Food Data Type in Excel to get calorie & nutrition facts.

Microsoft published a blog post elaborating on the changes to Excel as well as other parts of Microsoft Office, and includes animated gifs showing Bloomberg using the new data types.

Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types. Excel users have been using Microsoft’s spreadsheet tool for decades to import, organize, and analyze data, but ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced some Excel and Power BI enhancements that add 'connected data types' on top of the standard strings and numbers options.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could be an Excel wizard without putting in all the time and effort needed to learn how to get ...

Soon, Excel will also let you bring in your own data types. That means you can have a “customer” data type, for example, that can bring in rich customer data from a third-party service into Excel.

With Data Types we’ve added a third dimension to what you can build with Excel.” Another key feature of the custom data types is that they refresh when a newer version of a record is available.

Microsoft adds a new Copilot function to Excel, letting users generate, analyze, and summarize data directly in spreadsheet ...