Excel Data Types Not Working

Question

Updated 12/19/2022

Data Types are currently not working as expected for all users of Microsoft Excel. The work-around I recommend is to revert to version 16.64.

If you are affected and haven't already done so, please take a moment to notify Microsoft that you are affected by this problem. The way to do it is to use the Menu Bar and choose Help > Feedback > I Don't Like Something. Microsoft uses the Squeaky Wheel method to prioritize bug fixes. The more reports, the higher up the priority list the bug gets. Please do this from the current update of Excel before reverting to 16.64.

To revert to version 16.64:

Use the Menu Bar and choose Help > Check for Updates to launch AutoUpdate

In AutoUpdate, set updates to Manual to prevent AutoUpdate from automatically updating after you revert to the older build.

In Finder, navigate to the Applications folder

Right-click on Microsoft Excel.app and choose Move to Trash

Restart your Mac

Empty the Mac OS Trash

Use this installer to install build 16.64 of Microsoft Excel: Excel

Some users may be able to find a work-around, which is why I am posting this discussion. Some users will be blocked from this due to licensing or IT department restrictions.

There are third-party solutions available. I don't know which ones are great and which ones are less good. I'm hoping people will try them out and reply here with their results and recommendations.

On the Insert tab of the Ribbon choose Add-ins > Get Add-ins.

In the resulting dialog enter the word Stock in the Search field then click the spyglass icon. There are a lot of add-ins available. Let's chat about them in this thread.

Answer 1

With Excel 16.69.1, Stocks now works with Big Sur 11.7.2.

One oddity, though:

• With an existing Excel sheet with Stocks, it opened and worked immediately, tested multiple times.
• With a new Excel sheet, the first attempt at Stocks came back with the famous "sign out and then sign back in" message. After doing that, Stocks now works on new and existing sheets.

Answer 2

The issue was not related to which version of macOS you are using.

Thanks to everyone for reporting back after checking that it's working again.

Answer 3

Updated back to 16.69 from 16.64 (which was working) and now everything works as it should.

Answer 4

I tried the fix with Ventura 13.2 and Excel 16.69.1. It works!! Thank you very much for fixing this.

Answer 5

Well, I don't think we are done yet. At least for me.

As of Thursday 9:13AM in CA, it still does not work. On Excel 16.69.1 and on iMac MacOS 11.7. Restarted Excel several times, no diff.

And also still broken on my MacBook Air, same 16.69.1 Excel, and Ventura MacOS 13.1.