The newest cloud-connected data types, arriving in preview form with the March Office 365 update, are the Stocks and Geography data types, as described in this Thursday Microsoft announcement.

As you can see in Figure H, Microsoft imports and formats the Excel data. To enter new data, click New and Microsoft Lists will open a data entry form.

How to Make Excel Data Entry Forms Microsoft Forms offers a user-friendly, modern solution for data entry that integrates seamlessly with Excel, eliminating the need for VBA skills.

Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.

Data forms provide an alternative option for data entry in your Excel spreadsheet. Instead of scrolling from right to left in a wide row of fields, use a data form to view one record at a time.

If you support users who have trouble entering data and printing an Excel sheet, use this eight-step approach to create a foolproof form.

It’s not for big data, but you can use Microsoft Excel to learn a lot more about analytics than you may realize.

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Power BI , a cloud-based business intelligence service for analyzing data with Excel and Office 365. For those who don’t know, Power BI is a ...