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.

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 is still finding ways to inject drama into spreadsheets. The Verge points out that Microsoft is giving Excel support for custom live data types, expanding the content you can include well ...

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 is expanding is spreadsheet software with the addition of a new API which will allow developers to create their own custom data types in Excel. Countless solutions have been built in Excel ...

Data validation in Excel lets you restrict what can be entered into a cell, whether whole numbers, decimals, dates, or a certain number of characters. However, one of the most powerful capabilities of ...

The list of ‘anythings’ Excel can do keeps growing, as new versions with more templates and better features are released. Many prefer the simplicity of Excel over Word because it offers a huge, very ...

Have you ever struggled to sort data in Excel in a way that truly fits your needs? Imagine trying to organize a list of regions not alphabetically, but in a specific order like “North, South, East, ...

At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel. What this means is that Excel users will be ...

Have you ever struggled to make sense of a dataset with too many categories or time-based data? It’s a common challenge—how do you present individual contributions while still showing the bigger ...