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

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.

Excel can throw up various Data type Refresh errors. This post explains each and shows how to fix COULDN'T REFRESH DATA TYPES errors.

If Stock Data Types is not showing or missing in Excel, repairing Microsoft 365, or updating or reinstalling Office. Learn more.

Microsoft is making an important change to Excel to prevent attackers from spreading malware or phishing campaigns.