Shortly after Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel, someone demonstrated what could possibly go wrong if this feature is abused for malicious purposes. As promised last ...

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This sample shows how to create table markdown for a selected range in an Excel spreadsheet, making use of the Excel JavaScript API along the way. Excel's tabular style lends itself nicely to creating ...

Excel Formula Utilities for JavaScript is a library that can be used to pretty print excel formulas or convert excel formulas into JavaScript. The JavaScript generated by this library will not execute ...

On Monday at its Build conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced a host of software products and updates related to buzzy technologies like machine learning and mixed reality. But the company also ...

Before we go further, it is important to note that this is just a proof of concept and to even use custom functions in Excel, you first need to be using the Office Insider version of Excel and to ...

Well, that didn’t take long. A few minutes after writing about the potential risks that might be introduced by Microsoft announcing JavaScript support in Excel custom functions, I wondered out loud ...

At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel. What this means is that Excel users will be ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers. After ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create custom ...