Microsoft Excel now takes al kinds of custom data, expanding spreadsheets well past the usual text and numbers.

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 ...

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 ...

Slightly less than a year ago, Microsoft began outlining its plans to overhaul Office documents with live data, culled from the Web. On Monday, Microsoft made those plans reality, shipping PowerBI ...

When COULDN’T REFRESH DATA TYPES errors occur, the cells linked to live data are not refreshed because Excel cannot establish a connection with the external data source.

I can view live database tables as familiar Excel worksheets, make direct edits as if I were updating any other spreadsheet, and filter data using the Excel tools I already understand.

Coefficient, a startup developing an app that funnels live data from business systems into spreadsheets, has raised $18 million in venture capital.