Microsoft on Thursday announced some Excel and Power BI enhancements that add "connected data types" on top of the standard strings and numbers options. Connected data types give access to a lot of ...

Q. Can you tell me how to use the linked data types in Microsoft Excel? A. You can convert text in Excel to linked data types. This is referred to as “linked” data types because the data is connected ...

Microsoft is expanding is spreadsheet software with the addition of a new API which will allow developers to create their own custom data types in Excel. Countless solutions have been built in Excel ...

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For most of its existence, Microsoft Excel has supported two main types of data: text and numbers. But Microsoft has been working for years to "up-level" the types of data supported in Excel and now ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.

Microsoft Corp. today introduced new data management features for Excel that will make it easier to work with spreadsheets containing complex, regularly updated information. For most of its history, ...

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.

While opening an Excel spreadsheet, if you get an error message saying External Data Connections have been disabled, here is how to get rid of it. It appears when ...