The Food Data Type converts cells with food to nutrition details. Learn how to use Food Data Type in Excel to get calorie & nutrition facts.

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.

These new data types allow you to place structured data within a single cell. Microsoft announced a major update to Excel that brings the option to create your own data types.

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

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.

Microsoft is rolling out a major update to its spreadsheet software Excel that extends the supported pool of data types far beyond just numbers and text. In previous updates, the firm introduced ...

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 ...

Excel has historically been about organizing text and numbers, but for several years, Microsoft has been working to boost the number of data types the application supports.

Type the data. The entry appears in the first selected cell. Press "Ctrl-Enter" on the keyboard. Excel fills the other cells in the column with the same value.