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

Getting viable data from an Excel workbook into Power BI for data visualization purposes takes some specific preparation. Here is what you need to do.

The corporate crowd can use Power BI data types in Excel for Windows for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscribers that also have Power BI Pro service plans.

Learn how to export Microsoft Power BI data to Excel using this step-by-step guide with examples.

The gist of it is that linked data types connect users in Excel to other data from Bing, Wolfram, Power BI and other sources, covering currencies, geography, organizations, locations, cities ...

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

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

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Microsoft is bringing custom data types to Excel. Businesses and consumers will be able to import structured data into a single cell and reference it throughout a spreadsheet.

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.