Excel might be the world's most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to turn it into a better and more powerful programming language, without losing what makes it Excel.

Microsoft Corp. is releasing a new version of Excel that will enable users to write and run Python code directly in the spreadsheet editor’s interface. Stefan Kinnestrand, a general manager for ...

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing ...

This is similar to how Excel uses specific syntax for the formulas you use in the software ... If you want to learn how to use the programming language in Excel, I recommend starting there.

To get started, you must be part of the Beta channel for Insiders, and running Excel for Windows (build 16.0.16818.20000). Microsoft says support for Python in Excel for other platforms will come ...

OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, by contrast, can use Python directly as a macro language. Python and Microsoft Office have had ways to work together in the past — for instance, by using ...

Just as open-source development revolutionized SQL, it also rejuvenated programming languages that work with data. Languages like Python and R, though dating back to the 1990s, are relatively new ...

A Microsoft programming language VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is extremely useful to create custom tables and reports, perform calculations and create functions in Excel. However, in order to ...