Firstly, insert data types to which you want to add details automatically. It can be names of animals, cities, food items, celebrities, book titles, music, chemical elements, and more.

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

Microsoft calls data types the “third dimension” of an otherwise two-dimensional Excel cell, and it’s easy to see why. In 2019, Microsoft introduced the first two data types: “stocks ...

The Data menu contains many important features in Excel to manipulate data in your spreadsheet; it includes features to import and add connections to the database, sort and filter data, data ...

For some data types, such as a date or a percentage, Excel will change a cell's number format automatically as soon as you type it into a cell. Otherwise, there are various ways to change a number ...

You could have chosen the data type Automatic for each of these as well, and it would have worked. The automatic data type will attempt to automatically recognize the type of data and prepare the ...

Did you know you can use Excel to convert currencies? It turns out there's an easy way to convert currencies inside your workbook. Use the data types menu and choose currencies.

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.