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| Microsoft allows Excel to override text and numbers |
(Excel) went beyond the field of text and numbers as Microsoft updated the program to support custom live data types so that users can import their own data as a custom data type.
Microsoft's spreadsheet tools have been used to import, organize, and analyze data for decades. However, basic data types have always been restricted to text and numbers.
Microsoft previously added dynamic tables, custom stocks, and geographic data types.
This means that you can use (Excel) to process the data in a new way so that you can import data types for the city of Seattle and then create a formula that refers to that single cell to get information about the population of extracting Seattle.
These data types work by inserting a series of structured data into a cell in Excel that the rest of the worksheet can refer to.
You can also update the data to keep it updated. So if you are studying the periodic table as a student, you can create a cell for each element and extract individual data from it easily.
Microsoft provides more than 100 new types of data to subscribers (Microsoft 365 Personal) or (Microsoft 365 family).
With data from Wolfram Alpha, Excel users can track inventory and extract nutritional information for diet plans.
On the company side, Microsoft uses the Power BI service to import data sources into Excel data types so that companies can access various data.
These can be hierarchical data or even references to other data types, and a company can convert existing cells into related data types to facilitate data analysis.
Now when you import data into (Excel), you can use (Advanced Query) to convert it to Data Type.
This can include information from files, databases, and websites. You can also edit the imported data and then convert it to a specific type of data for use in spreadsheets.
These new data types (Power BI) are available to all (Microsoft 365) and (Office 365) subscribers. These subscribers also have service plans (Power BI Pro) and (Power Query) data types also available to subscribers.
Wolfram Alpha data types are also currently available for preview for internal Office subscribers and will soon be available to all Microsoft 365 subscribers.