A year ago support for nested data types in Excel was announced on the Excel blog, but the announcement didn’t have much detail about what nested data types are and the docs are quite vague too. I was ...

Power BI data types are available in Excel for Windows (current channel) for all Microsoft 365/Office 365 subscribers that have a Power BI Pro service plan. Power Query data types are currently ...

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.

Data types have a big impact on how Excel calculates and interprets your data. For example, you won't be able to efficiently sort, filter, or apply formulas based on dates if a column of dates is ...

When COULDN’T REFRESH DATA TYPES errors occur, the cells linked to live data are not refreshed because Excel cannot establish a connection with the external data source.

Just to name a few examples: currencies, food, movies, and activities. Most of the linked data types are only available to users with Microsoft 365. You can view the different linked data types ...

Normally, Excel data types is a really dry subject to talk about. As I said before, though, I am intrigued by what Microsoft is doing with these new data types. In fact, ...

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 calls data types the “third dimension” of an otherwise two-dimensional Excel cell, and it’s easy to see why. In 2019, Microsoft introduced the first two data types: “stocks ...