If you are a Power BI customer, Excel will automatically connect to Power BI, and any data you’ve published will be easily discoverable and flow into Excel as a structured data type. If you have data ...

This tutorial shows the steps to use Automatic Data Type in Microsoft Excel. It allows you to insert details of cities, food items, music, animals, persons, etc, automatically.

New in March—rich data types, intelligent search, and expanded datacenters Microsoft 365 Blog. Preview of Stocks and Geography, New Data Types in Excel John Campbell, Microsoft. Microsoft to add new ...

Step 4: Select data type. On the ‘Data’ tab, click either ‘Stocks’ or ‘Geography’ (here, we will select ‘Geography’). Step 5: Icons appear. If Excel finds a match between the text in the cells and the ...

To inspect data types, select a range and navigate to the "Data" tab. Use the "Data Types" dropdown to check if Excel correctly identifies your data. A green icon indicates a recognized data type.

You could have chosen the data type Automatic for each of these as well, and it would have worked. The automatic data type will attempt to automatically recognize the type of data and prepare the ...

This icon indicates that Excel is now treating the cell's contents as geographic data. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 3: The cell is now being treated as geographic data.

When done, the data type displays a small map icon, as shown in Figure B. Before doing anything else, notice that Excel also displays an Insert Data button in the top-right corner of the selected ...

Excel offers many different chart types—including column and bar graphs—to present your data. However, you don't have to settle for the preset column and bar layouts. Instead, you can swap ...

The geography data feature is now enabled for the text you have selected. Click on the list icon to see the data types. Select the data type you want to fill in the sheet.

Stocks is not the only new data type. Here is an example of a Geography data type: In this example, column A contains cells that have the Geography data type. This time, the Geography icon next to the ...