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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

Excel on the web: Microsoft closes the gap on the desktop version Your email has been sent If you haven't tried Excel on the web in a while, you might be surprised by ...

Microsoft released new Excel features in September 2025 for Windows, Mac, iOS, and web users, with a focus on updates to the ...

Microsoft is launching a couple of features to Excel today that make the ubiquitous spreadsheet software a bit more powerful. Among the new features is support for Azure Machine Learning and custom ...

In the well-established Office Ready-Fire-Aim tradition, Microsoft adds two new “features” that beg to be abused. Details appeared at Build, and the bad guys already have their keyboards primed. Once ...

Tom Warren 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.