When you use the statistical analysis features in Excel, you are leveraging one of the most powerful tools available for data manipulation and interpretation. Excel is not just a spreadsheet ...

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 ...

Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started adding the concept of "data types" to Excel; that is, the ability to pull in geography and real-time stock data from the cloud, for example.