Mitchell Grant is a self-taught investor with over 5 years of experience as a financial trader. He is a financial content strategist and creative content editor. Timothy Li is a consultant, accountant ...

Q. Can you tell me how to use the linked data types in Microsoft Excel? A. You can convert text in Excel to linked data types. This is referred to as “linked” data types because the data is connected ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and ...

Data is a thorny subject. For a start, we’re not sure how we are supposed to refer to it, that is - data is the plural of datum. Strictly speaking we should talk about data that ‘are’ not ‘is’ ...

Microsoft has started to roll out a new feature that promises to turn Excel into a much more valuable data-surfacing tool than ever before. Here's how it works. A few months ago, I wrote about the ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.