How to Program an Excel Spreadsheet to Auto-Update From the Web. While you can certainly copy and paste data from a network or Web-based external source into Excel, importing the data by ...

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.

Microsoft has announced a beta version of Excel that allows pivot tables to automatically update themselves when data is changed.

The Refresh Recommend is usually a sign that the data in the workbook might be outdated. Excel suggests refreshing the data so that the most up-to-date version can be retrieved.

Microsoft expands Excel's real-time "data types" by adding support for your data, as well as hundreds of sources from Wolfram Alpha.