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.

Excel is eventually going to recognize over 100 new data types. Microsoft has not yet said what all of those new data types will be, but it did confirm that one of the data types will be food ...

Microsoft is bringing new kinds of AI-enabled data types to Excel, starting with geography and stocks. Up next: Companies' own organizational data.

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

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.

To allow customers work with their own data as a data type, Microsoft is overhauling Excel. While Microsoft has already added dynamic arrays and few custom stocks and geography data types, the ...

Excel has historically been about organizing text and numbers, but for several years, Microsoft has been working to boost the number of data types the application supports.

Microsoft is opening up Excel to developers with a new JavaScript API. It will let developers use custom data types like images, cards, and arrays.

Working with Excel's New Data Types Microsoft has started to roll out a new feature that promises to turn Excel into a much more valuable data-surfacing tool than ever before. Here's how it works ...