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 ...

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.

"JavaScript opens up another attack vector for malicious documents, and is yet another thing that we as defenders will have to watch out for other than what Excel can already do," says Chase ...

First, JavaScript in Excel. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Last December, Microsoft published a Dev Center article that talked about using the new Excel JavaScript API to create add-ins for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using data from Excel Web with JavaScript; explanations from the new Excel Mashup site The desktop Office apps have been connecting to Office servers for years now, from the original Project ...

When the custom JS equation is used, Excel will will create a hidden browser that loads the various files and then executes the custom JavaScript functions. After quickly researching how to do ...

The questions plaguing users of Microsoft Excel—JavaScript support, slow Mac development cycles, the lack of Easter eggs—all apparently come down to one thing: prioritizing developer resources.

Microsoft has added the ability for users to create custom Javascript functions in Excel spreadsheets, creating concern among security experts. According to Excel program managers Michael Saunders ...