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.

Ignite's on again this week, and Microsoft has furthered this goal with more data types that also power Wolfram search. Microsoft in August announced additional Wolfram data types for Excel.

Thanks to its partnership with Wolfram, Excel now features more than 100 of these data types that can flow into a spreadsheet. But you won’t be limited to only these pre-built data types for long.

Thanks to its partnership with Wolfram, Excel now features more than 100 of these data types that can flow into a spreadsheet.

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

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