Microsoft on Thursday leaned more heavily into its support for “data types” within Excel, going beyond the staid concept of numbers and formulas to embrace a huge variety of elements that could reside ...

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.

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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 ...

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, ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced some Excel and Power BI enhancements that add "connected data types" on top of the standard strings and numbers options. Connected data types give access to a lot of ...

Inserting and customizing the timeline chart . It's now time to insert a line chart, which you'll adapt into a timeline chart ...

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program for businesses, learning institutions, individuals, data analysts, etc. However, some users have reported issues with Excel that need fixing. For instance, ...

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

Microsoft Excel has great tools to help you in getting important data easily without any research. You can get almost any data in Excel directly with just some functions. The less-used data function ...