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.

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.

Microsoft today added new AI-powered data types to Excel (currently in beta) to give customers a way to access extensive information about companies and places. Stocks and Geography data types ...

Soon, Excel will also let you bring in your own data types. That means you can have a “customer” data type, for example, that can bring in rich customer data from a third-party service into Excel.

With Data Types we’ve added a third dimension to what you can build with Excel.” Another key feature of the custom data types is that they refresh when a newer version of a record is available.

Microsoft Corp. is enhancing its Excel spreadsheet software with two new “rich data” types that provides a better way to access information on companies and places.

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.

Microsoft will soon open up a preview of a new JavaScript API for Excel that will let users make their own custom data types containing things like ...