Dear colleagues,

We want to inform you that Microsoft will retire the Organization data types feature in Excel effective July 31, 2025. This decision is based on low usage and high ongoing maintenance costs.

What’s Changing: 

• • The Organization option will be removed from the Data Types gallery in Excel across all platforms: Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, and Android. 

• • Users will no longer be able to convert values to new organization data types. 

• • Existing data using this feature will remain in your workbooks but will no longer refresh. 

What You Can Do Instead: 

• • Use Get Data > From Power BI on the Data ribbon to import data from Power BI. 

• • Alternatively, consider using an Excel add-in to create custom rich entities for your organization. 

Please note that this change does not affect Bing data types, which will continue to be supported. 

Learn More: 

• • Use Organization data types in Excel 

• • Connect Excel to Power BI semantic models 

• • Overview of data types in Excel add-ins 

Kind regards,  

Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI)
Information Technology Services, University of Toronto
215 Huron Street, Toronto
Ontario M5S 1A2