Ignite's on again this week, and Microsoft has furthered this goal with more data types that also power Wolfram search. Microsoft in August announced additional Wolfram data types for Excel.

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 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 ...

To allow customers work with their own data as a data type, Microsoft is overhauling Excel. While Microsoft has already added dynamic arrays and few custom stocks and geography data types, the ...

Microsoft is bringing custom data types to Excel. Businesses and consumers will be able to import structured data into a single cell and reference it throughout a spreadsheet.

Thanks to its partnership with Wolfram, Excel now features more than 100 of these data types that can flow into a spreadsheet. But you won’t be limited to only these pre-built data types for long.