Microsoft announced that Excel will soon support custom live data types. The functionality allows you to import your own data as custom data types. These new data types allow you to place structured ...

Microsoft on Thursday leaned more heavily into its support for “data types” within Excel, going beyond the staid concept of numbers and formulas to embrace a huge variety of elements that could reside ...

Excel offers a wide variety of charts and graphs, each designed to help you uniquely visualize data. But choosing the right chart isnt always straightforward. Let's break down the essential Excel ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.

This useful application MS Excel uses tables to store and analyze mathematical data using formulas and functions and your office work is incomplete without this app ...

In a nutshell: Up until recently, Microsoft Excel users have only been able to enter text and numbers as data into cells. One of the announcements Microsoft made at its Ignite 2021 event this week is ...

Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started adding the concept of “data types” to Excel; that is, the ability to pull in geography and real-time stock data from the cloud, for example.