An Excel Web Query allows you to retrieve the latest real-time data and insert it in your spreadsheet. However, Web Query does not refresh data in the table automatically.

The Refresh Recommend is usually a sign that the data in the workbook might be outdated.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.

Excel can throw up various Data type Refresh errors. This post explains each and shows how to fix COULDN'T REFRESH DATA TYPES errors.

While you can certainly copy and paste data from a network or Web-based external source into Excel, importing the data by connecting to it provides an added benefit. If the information in the ...