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Funds missing?
Excel’s built-in Stocks data type doesn’t support ISINs—making it much harder to reliably find certain funds (as you’ve experienced).
Internet Infos: Excel’s Stocks feature relies on Refinitiv’s data and typically depends on fund names or tickers—not ISINs. Many fund names are informal, abbreviated, or inconsistent, which makes accurate search difficult Microsoft Learn.
Unfortunately, there's no way to directly feed an ISIN into Excel’s Stocks data type search using built-in methods.
Workarounds & Alternatives:
Use an ISIN-capable Add-In (e.g., Stock Quotes by ISIN)
Use External Data Providers like Excel Price Feed (Tools like Excel Price Feed
support converting ISINs to tickers via formulas)
Enterprise Data Feeds (e.g., Bloomberg, Morningstar)
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Hope this will help you.
Hi Nikolino!
Thanks for your reply. Is there any free solution available? I got Microsoft just to get this option which it is included in Excel. I dont want to pay extra tools. It should be working in Excel. There are funds not added yet, Microsoft is not currently taking care of it properly as they should and not doing much (see my list, I am requesting to add them for very long). GoogleSheet is providing a good working solution for it and it seems they are getting more customers than Microsoft in this area, but I am used to use Excel. Microsoft should be aware of other competitor or they might loose customers and market share. At least to publish a list of texts and products for funds available in Excel, if not, it is difficult to find them. Tikers are not always available.