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 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.

Microsoft on Thursday announced some Excel and Power BI enhancements that add 'connected data types' on top of the standard strings and numbers options.

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.

The TYPE function is an information function in Microsoft Excel, and its purpose is to return a number indicating the data type of a value.

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.

Using Excel's number format tool means you can ensure your spreadsheet both looks the part and handles your data exactly how you want it to. In this article, I'll explain what each number format ...