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

You can convert text in Excel to linked data types. This is referred to as “linked” data types because the data is connected to an online data source.

Now Excel is going 3D: Data types let any cell contain a rich set of structured data that can be updated directly from a live data source.

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The first two of these data types, stocks and geography, will allow Excel to recognize automatically recognize a place or stock and serve up a rich set of data for it.

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.

Soon, Excel will also let you bring in your own data types. That means you can have a “customer” data type, for example, that can bring in rich customer data from a third-party service into Excel.

To allow customers work with their own data as a data type, Microsoft is overhauling Excel. While Microsoft has already added dynamic arrays and few custom stocks and geography data types, the ...

These new data types allow you to place structured data within a single cell. Microsoft announced a major update to Excel that brings the option to create your own data types.

For instance, you can create a chart that displays two unique sets of data. Use Excel's chart wizard to make a combo chart that combines two chart types, each with its own data set.