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.

While Microsoft has already added dynamic arrays and few custom stocks and geography data types, the firm is now redesigning Excel to let users import their own data as a custom data type.

Microsoft is bringing custom data types to Excel. Businesses and consumers will be able to import structured data into a single cell and reference it throughout a spreadsheet.

Microsoft is putting the final touches on a feature for Copilot in Excel that will make it easy to important data from the web and other documents.

Importing Data Into Microsoft Excel 2007 From Databases and Web Sites Simplify the way you move data into a spreadsheet.

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether.