Macros allow Excel users to create scripts that process ... based on spreadsheets. But Visual Basic and VBA have pretty much dropped out as popular programming languages. They were tied to the ...

Similarly, JavaScript scripts for automating Excel ... and it offers a form of visual programming. “The beauty of Excel, the soul of Excel, is the grid and functions,” as Jones put it.

Note that LAMBDA isn't the only project out there trying to put more "programming" goodness into the hands of Excel users, who write macros in the Visual Basic for Applications variant of VB using the ...

The programming language can be used to create more advanced data science workflows than those that Excel supports out of the box. A worker could, for example, write a Python script that scans the ...

Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month. Since it was opened, the topic has become ...

The cumbersome process of using Python code in Microsoft Excel data-driven projects will soon be eased by the company's new "Python in Excel" initiative, currently in public preview. Integrating the ...

Microsoft is adding the Python programming language ... be executed like any macro or regular Excel function. However, instead of running the Python scripts locally, Excel will execute the code ...