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 has started to roll out a new feature that promises to turn Excel into a much more valuable data-surfacing tool than ever before. Here's how it works. A few months ago, I wrote about the ...

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 ...

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Microsoft has updated Excel to allow developers to programmatically create their own custom data types in the popular spreadsheet program. This update isn't aimed at Excel-using business execs but ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft today added new AI-powered data types to Excel (currently in ...

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 is ...

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 ...