What does External Data Connections have been disabled mean in Excel? Excel often needs to fetch data from other sources to perform or execute a certain function or show the data in the spreadsheet.

You can use Stock Quote in Excel to get the real-time prices of stocks. The Stocks data type is connected to an online source that contains more info.

Excel’s BYCOL() and BYROW() functions evaluate data across columns and rows, returning an array result set allowing you to bypass a lot of work.

Displaying values on a map chart is more meaningful than handing someone a sheet of data. Thanks to Microsoft Excel's Geography data type, creating a map chart is easier than you might think.

You can filter data in Excel based on either certain parameters in columns or over the whole sheet, and you can later unfilter the sheet.