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 "Life Edition" moniker in favor of much more ...

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. After ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.

In this post, we will show you how to fix COULDN’T REFRESH DATA TYPES errors in Excel. COULDN’T REFRESH DATA TYPES Excel errors are specific errors you may encounter while working with Linked Data ...

Microsoft announced today that it is using AI to bring new, richer data types to Excel. The first two of these data types, stocks and geography, will allow Excel to recognize automatically recognize a ...

If you’ve ever doing an assignment for work or study that requires you to display information about a country, you could manually search for it and type it out in Microsoft Excel, but that would be ...

Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started adding the concept of “data types” to Excel; that is, the ability to pull in geography and real-time stock data from the cloud, for example.

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 ...

New geography and stocks data types will be coming first to Office Insiders. Microsoft's plan is to have the Insiders test these and then start rolling the features out to Office 365 subscribers, ...

Announced at its Ignite 2017 conference over six months ago, Microsoft finally confirmed today that its cloud-connected data types in Excel will be rolling out this month to Insiders. Last September ...