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

Based on Bing's intelligent search features, Excel's new data types help users compile their reports faster.

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

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 opening up Excel to developers with a new JavaScript API. It will let developers use custom data types like images, cards, and arrays.

With Data Types we’ve added a third dimension to what you can build with Excel.” Another key feature of the custom data types is that they refresh when a newer version of a record is available.

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 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 today added new AI-powered data types to Excel (currently in beta) to give customers a way to access extensive information about companies and places. Stocks and Geography data types ...

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 ...