The Excel JavaScript API requirement set 1.7 features include APIs for charts, events, worksheets, ranges, document properties, named items, protection options and styles. With the new chart APIs, you ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have an excel addin which writes an range to an excel sheet and lets user modify it. Once he is done he will press a button on wich we will read the range from the sheet and will try to parse it.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...