At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel.

Microsoft is opening up Excel to developers with a new JavaScript API. It will let developers use custom data types like images, cards, and arrays.

Enabling JavaScript should make Excel more powerful, but increasing access points makes it even more of a web security nightmare than it already is.

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.

Right now, JavaScript in Excel custom functions is only supported in the Developer Preview edition to Office 365 subscribers enrolled in the Office Insiders program. But it seems inevitable that in ...

However, you don’t need to be familiar with JavaScript to use Office Scripts. As an Excel for the web user, you’ll want to use Office Scripts anytime you often repeat the same task.

The Excel Services REST and SOAP APIs introduced in SharePoint 2010 are SharePoint only, but with the Excel Services JavaScript API you can work with embedded workbooks on a host web page — from ...

Within days of Microsoft announcing that they are introducing custom JavaScript equations in Excel, a security researcher has developed a way to use this method to load the CoinHive in-browser ...

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 ...