At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the ... next-generation experience within Excel,” Microsoft explains in its press ...

A new JavaScript API will be available to preview inside Excel later this month, which will let developers create these custom data types for inputs and outputs and enable custom functions.

Users will then be able to insert and call these formulas from within Excel spreadsheets, but have a JavaScript interpreter compute the spreadsheet data instead of Excel's native engine.

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Within a day of the announcement this week ... Security Researcher Mitch Edwards Thankfully, the pre-release of JavaScript for Excel makes it difficult to share tainted files, but researchers ...

Similarly, JavaScript scripts for automating Excel are currently only available within a single worksheet, and the Excel team is already talking to customers about the best way to share those ...