JavaScript isn't replacing Office macros anytime soon, but the Office Web apps (and the SharePoint-based enterprise equivalents) are improving regularly. For users that means simple but useful ...

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Microsoft has added the ability for users to create custom Javascript functions in Excel spreadsheets, creating concern among security experts. According to Excel program managers Michael Saunders ...

Javascript custom functions are now supported in the Insider program's Excel (build 9325) so that developers can extend Excel's built-in function set. Security researcher Charles Dirderman immediately ...

Enabling JavaScript should make Excel more powerful, but increasing access points makes it even more of a web security nightmare than it already is.

To provide Python in Excel locally, Anaconda used Microsoft’s existing Excel plugin capabilities combined with their own technologies. They used PyScript, a Python-on-WebAssembly (WASM) technology, to ...

The questions plaguing users of Microsoft Excel—JavaScript support, slow Mac development cycles, the lack of Easter eggs—all apparently come down to one thing: prioritizing developer resources. The ...

Excel might be the world's most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to turn it into a better and more powerful programming language, without losing what makes it Excel.