is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.

Once Excel knows the URL, it can fetch fresh prices on demand, no more visits to the site, no more downloads, no more ...

Excel is great for organizing data. But if you need information that changes constantly—like stock prices, weather updates, or cryptocurrency rates, you don't have to copy numbers from websites every ...