Microsoft on Thursday announced some Excel and Power BI enhancements that add 'connected data types' on top of the standard strings and numbers options.

Note that the content that follows is based on Microsoft Excel 365 for PCs. Other versions of Excel may work differently. To use linked data types, start by creating a list of your data in an Excel ...

Microsoft is bringing new kinds of AI-enabled data types to Excel, starting with geography and stocks. Up next: Companies' own organizational data.

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Power BI data types are available in Excel for Windows for Microsoft 365 /Office 365 subscribers that have a Power BI Pro service plan. Power Query data types will roll out over the coming weeks ...

If you are unable to Geography data feature in your Excel, you must sign-in with Microsoft 365 subscription account. If you are not a subscriber, you cannot get the feature.

The big deal here is the addition of the new data types in Excel, and, given Microsoft's current focus on AI, it's likely we'll see even more AI-powered features hit Office 365 apps in the future.

Microsoft is bringing custom data types to Excel. Businesses and consumers will be able to import structured data into a single cell and reference it throughout a spreadsheet.

Microsoft is opening up Excel to developers with a new JavaScript API. It will let developers use custom data types like images, cards, and arrays.