All the same, this could make Excel spreadsheets much more useful for putting data to work — you can easily use live, evolving info instead of painstakingly entering it by hand.

Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types. Excel users have been using Microsoft’s spreadsheet tool for decades to import, organize, and analyze data, but ...

Data access happens in minutes instead of days, and all the challenges of data extracts go away. By using Excel’s GETPIVOTDATA and CUBE functions with a live data connection, analysts have a new, ...

I can view live database tables as familiar Excel worksheets, make direct edits as if I were updating any other spreadsheet, and filter data using the Excel tools I already understand.

Microsoft is planning an overhaul of our Office documents, weaving live data into the once-static fabric of our Word files and Excel spreadsheets. It’s a bold experiment that could kill the very ...

Microsoft's Money in Excel, introduced in April, is now a downloadable Excel template that can import live transactions from your bank, credit cards, and more, and analyze them.

In this overview, Leila Gharani explores how integrating Python into Excel redefines how you handle external data. From establishing live connections to datasets using Power Query to using Python ...

BETHESDA, Md., June 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- While Excel is a tool that every financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professional knows well, practitioners may not be aware of recent advances that ...