Since 1987, Excel has let you input numbers, text, and formulas into a two-dimensional grid. Now Excel is going 3D: Data types let any cell contain a rich set of structured data that can be ...

Related: Working with Excel's New Data Types A few months ago, I speculated on what a then-rumored Office 365 "Life Edition" might end up looking like. Ultimately, Microsoft chose to abandon the ...

In a nutshell: Up until recently, Microsoft Excel users have only been able to enter text and numbers as data into cells. One of the announcements Microsoft made at its Ignite 2021 event this week ...

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. Excel is getting ...

The big deal here is the addition of the new data types in Excel, and, given Microsoft's current focus on AI, it's likely we'll see even more AI-powered features hit Office 365 apps in the future.

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.

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

Microsoft announced that Excel will soon support custom data types. The functionality allows you to place sets of data within single cells. These new data types can be powered by Power ...

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 ...

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.