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 ...

How to run a VBA procedure from a data validation control in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent There are lots of ways to execute a VBA procedure in Microsoft Excel. You can add macro buttons at ...

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, ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank Excel sheet, wishing you had the perfect dataset to test a formula, build a dashboard, or polish your data-cleaning skills? Creating custom datasets ...

Number formats in Microsoft Excel define how data is displayed in your spreadsheet without changing the underlying values. As well as using number formats to present data as dates, times, percentages, ...

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 ...