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MON, 28 SEPT · 76 ITEMS
Hacker News, The Register · AI & Technology
Microsoft Excel is introducing a feature that allows users to store multiple values—such as or —in a single cell, breaking the 40-year-old rule that each cell holds only one value. This is a major shift in Excel's data model, enabling richer data organization without requiring separate cells or complex workarounds. The feature is currently rolling out to and represents a significant evolution of the spreadsheet's core functionality.
The claim is highly solid: it comes directly from Microsoft's official announcement on the Microsoft Tech Community blog, which is the primary source. Multiple reputable tech outlets (The Register, Windows Latest, Neowin) have independently reported and confirmed the feature, all citing the same official blog post and describing the same capability.
The announcement was published on September 25, 2026, and all coverage dates from the same week, so this is genuinely new material with no resurfaced older content.
We covered the initial testing of this feature in a September 27, 2026 digest, where Microsoft began testing cells capable of holding multiple values.