The geography and stocks data types allow users to pull information from Microsoft’s extensive Knowledge Graph and insert it inside their spreadsheets. The general idea is to make Excel smart ...

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

While Microsoft has added dynamic arrays and some custom stocks and geography data types previously, the company is now updating Excel to let people import their own data as a custom data type.

Microsoft today added new AI-powered data types to Excel (currently in beta) to give customers a way to access extensive information about companies and places. Stocks and Geography data types ...

The gist of it is that linked data types connect users in Excel to other data from Bing, Wolfram, Power BI and other sources, covering currencies, geography, organizations, locations, cities ...

Microsoft is launching several new artificial intelligence-based features for Excel. The new features include Ideas, new data types, ‘insert data from picture’ and dynamic arrays.

1. Microsoft Excel is getting smarter. Thanks to a fresh infusion of artificial intelligence, Microsoft Excel will now be smart enough to understand a user’s entries and then offer additional ...

For instance, Excel can recognize "France" as Geography data type, which provides access to more information that can be added within an Excel worksheet, such as pulling in demographic information.