Auto-Refresh STOCKS in Excel | Pull Live Stock Data in Excel | New Feature

Posted on: 04/12/2022

The STOCKS data type in Microsoft Excel required manual refresh until now. A new feature released for Microsoft Excel on Desktop for Windows, Mac as well as Excel on the Web, fixes that problem, by allowing you pull almost live stock data into Excel.

Excel Stock data type Refresh 5 minutes — **Stock data type Refresh every 5 minutes**

In this video, I show you how to add various STOCKS to your spreadsheet, how to configure which columns you can see (such as price, last trade time, etc.) and also demonstrate how to enable this new feature, to Refresh Stocks quotes every 5 minutes or when you open the worksheet again.

YouTube Video

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
00:43 Add Stocks in Excel Desktop
01:30 Customize columns
02:07 Create table from data
03:17 Refresh options
03:51 Add Stocks in Excel Web
04:29 Closing remarks

Stock data type fields

52 week high
52 week low
Beta
Change
Change (%)
Currency
Description
Employees
Exchange
Exchange abbreviation
Headquarters
High
Industry
Instrument type
Last trade time
Low
Market cap Name
Official name
Open
P/E
Previous close Price
Shares outstanding
Ticker symbol Volume
Volume average
Year incorporated

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Chris Menard

Chris Menard is a certified Microsoft Trainer (MCT) and works as a full-time Trainer at BakerHostetler - one of the largest law firms in the US. He runs a YouTube channel with 900+ technology videos that cover various tools such as Excel, Word, Zoom, Teams, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Outlook. To date, the channel has helped over 20 million viewers. Menard also does 2 to 3 public speaking events every year, presenting at the Administrative Professional Conference (APC), the EA Ignite Conference, the Support Staff Conference, the University of Georgia, and CPA conferences. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://chrismenardtraining.com/linkedin or watch his videos on YouTube at https://chrismenardtraining.com/youtube.