However, Microsoft is now extending Excel to allow it to support far more data types than ever before. I don't blame you if your eyes started to glaze over as you read that last paragraph.

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.

Q. Can you tell me how to use the linked data types in Microsoft Excel? A. You can convert text in Excel to linked data types. This is referred to as “linked” data types because the data is connected ...

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 images, entities, arrays, or formatted number ...

Microsoft is using AI to bring richer data types to Excel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft announced today that ...

Microsoft announced that Excel will soon support custom live data types. The functionality allows you to import your own data as custom data types. These new data types allow you to place ...

Microsoft on Thursday leaned more heavily into its support for “data types” within Excel, going beyond the staid concept of numbers and formulas to embrace a huge variety of elements that ...

The Knowledge Graph already powering Bing and Excel data types. It's this cloud-connected/Knowledge Graph connection that is behind Microsoft describing these new datatypes as AI-infused.

Here's how it works. A few months ago, I wrote about the extensive work that Microsoft was doing around expanded data types for Excel. If you missed it, the idea is that Microsoft is building what ...

Follow the steps below on how to use the Food Data Type in Microsoft Excel to get calorie & nutrition facts: Launch Excel spreadsheet Highlight the cells of the Food you want to look up.