Get a stock quote. Excel for Office 365. To insert a stock price into Excel, you first convert text into the Stocks data type. Then you can use another column to extract certain details relative to that data type, like the stock price, change in price, and so on.
There is a new way to get stock quotes in Excel 2016, but you'll have to be sure Excel is up to date before trying this.
Make sure your Mac has a working internet connection before checking for updates. Install Mac OS X updates followed by Office updates.
Mac OS X updates:
Download 1 night 2 days. To get Mac OS updates, go to the App store on your dock, and then click the Updates button to reveal available updates.
Office Updates
To get the update:
1. Open any Office application:
3. Make sure your Mac has a working internet connection
4. Go to the Help menu and choose Check for Updates
5. Let AutoUpdate check for and install updates
6. Restart your Mac
After restarting your Mac, open Excel and go to Excel Preferences. At the bottom of the View preferences check the box for In Ribbon Show Developer Tab, which turns the Developer tab on in the Ribbon.
Now go to the Developer tab and click the blue Add-Ins button (not the one that looks like gears).
Click STORE
Search for Stock Connector (by Michael Saunders) and install it (it's free)
With this add-in you can link the results shown in the stock connector window to cells on a worksheet. Here's a screen shot. You can drag the Stock Connector out of the pane and it will float.
I've been moving my financial spreadsheet from Google Sheets to Excel 2013 and it took me a while to find a way to handle stock quotes. Finally found some references to the following method after an interminable number of Google searches. Thought I'd share it so that someone else doesn't have to go through the same work:
=NUMBERVALUE(WEBSERVICE('http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s='&C13&'&f=l1'))
where 'C13' is the stock symbol.