Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started adding the concept of ‘data types’ to Excel, that is, the ability to pull in geography and real-time stock data from the cloud, for example.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/29/microsoft-now-lets-you-bring-your-own-data-types-to-excel/
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/29/microsoft-now-lets-you-bring-your-own-data-types-to-excel/