Microsoft just announced another feature retirement, this time in Excel. The Organization data type is being retired as of July 31, 2025. Here’s the information about the retirement…
Microsoft Excel will retire the Organization data types feature on July 31, 2025, due to low usage and high costs. Users are advised to use the “Get Data > From Power BI” import feature or an add-in for custom entities. This change affects all Excel platforms, but existing data will be preserved without refresh capability. Bing data types remain supported.
We will retire Organization data types in Microsoft Excel effective July 31, 2025. This feature has low usage and high ongoing sustaining costs.
Instead, we recommend customers switch to the Get Data > From Power BI import feature on the Data ribbon in Excel to import data from Power BI or an add-in to create custom rich entities for the organization.
This retirement affects Excel for Windows desktop, Excel for Mac desktop, Excel for the web, and Excel for iOS/Android.
After this retirement, we will remove the Organization option from the Data Types gallery on the Data tab on the ribbon, and users will not be able to convert values to new organization types. Existing data in workbooks that used the Organization data type will be preserved but will no longer refresh. This change will have no impact on Bing data types, which we will continue to support.
I’ll admit to not even knowing that an Organization data type even existed… which definitely relates to “this feature has low usage”… 🙂
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