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.

Ever found yourself overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data you need to track in Excel? Tracking data across multiple Excel worksheets can be a daunting task, often leading to missed updates and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft announced cloud-connected data types back in 2018 and brought the Stocks and Geography types in June 2019. Today, the company has announced that it is adding more than 100 new data types to ...

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 ...