#EXCEL FOR MAC IQY UPDATE#
Well, hope this helps! DECEMBER 2014 UPDATE If you want to download the three MSN Mone圜entral iqy files that were provided with previous versions of Excel, here they are, all zipped up for you: For example, here are the contents of the MSN Mone圜entral Investor Stock Quote iqy file: WEB The iqy files are simply text files saved with an. To use them, simply click Data > Existing Connections, and in the Existing Connections dialog box shown below, use the Browse for More button to browse to the iqy files.īy default, they are stored in the My Documents\My Data Sources folder, shown below. iqy files were gone! So, I copied them from my laptop, and have attached them to this blog post in case you also find them missing one day. This is a totally cool feature, and, when I installed Excel 2013, I noticed that the needed. Once this is set up, you can update the quotes by clicking the refresh button in the Data ribbon. The MSN Mone圜entral Stock Quote IQY file allows you to retrieve stock quotes right into your worksheet, and, you can provide one or many ticker symbols in a cell, as shown below. The IQY files are web query files, and they contain specific settings needed by Excel to retrieve data from a specific web service. iqy web query files, and, with the rollout of Excel 2013, through formulas such as WEBSERVICE and FILTERXML. You can also pull data from the web through. You can use Excel’s built-in web-browser, which is launched when you click the Data > From Web command icon. Excel can pull data from the web in a variety of different ways. One of the most fun external data sources is the web. Over the years, it has been fun to see how Microsoft has continued to invest in this feature, and has greatly expanded the types of data sources from which Excel can retrieve data. I thought the external data feature was just great, and it saved me a ton of time.
I guess I first began using this feature back in about 1997 or so to retrieve data from a database. In any event, I’d like to talk briefly about what iqy files are, and then, provide a download link to them in case you are running Excel 2013 and need to get a copy.Įxcel does an amazing job of importing data from a wide variety of data sources. I’m not sure if this just occurred on my system, or, if this is by design.
#EXCEL FOR MAC IQY INSTALL#
I happened to notice that the MSN Mone圜entral Investor Stock Quotes IQY file did not install automatically with Excel 2013. Note: see this post for instructions on using the new stock quotes system in Excel.
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