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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.
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I was with Microsoft Support as well and did all the steps to fully remove Office, remove all licenses, reinstall Office, and it didn't work for me. Please keep providing the feedback to Microsoft so they can prioritize a fix...
I've had Ventura 13.01 and now 13.1 with the latest Excel versions, and I have experienced the problem. So it's not the Mac OS X version. What's more is my experience has been that immediately following the Venture 13.1 upgrade, for a brief moment, Excel Stock data types worked. As in it worked on the first time I used data types: I typed in MSFT, selected Stock data type, entered ={cell}.Price in a cell to test, and that all worked. I quit Excel, re-opened Excel, and got the same error message to sign out of my account, and has never worked since.
There's a problem with that. I clicked on help and something I don't like and it told me to please install latest update before complaining. Naaaa, I don't want to do that. I'll see if I can do it from my widows machine when I get to it. I think it has the latest version.
Monterey 12.6 by the way.
I was with Microsoft Support as well and did all the steps to fully remove Office, remove all licenses, reinstall Office, and it didn't work for me. Please keep providing the feedback to Microsoft so they can prioritize a fix...
It is not at all surprising that uninstall/reinstall had no effect. There is nothing wrong with your installation. There is a bug in Microsoft Excel. Please refer to the topic discussed. You can fix things by reverting to version 16.64 as described earlier.