You can use the Excel JavaScript API to build add-ins for Excel 2016. The following list shows the high-level Excel objects that are available in the API. Each object ...

The ExcelApi 1.15 added an a method to locate all the dependent cells of a formula, methods to retrieve information about the data source of both ChartSeries and PivotTable objects to support the copy ...

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 custom ...

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is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.

JavaScript isn't replacing Office macros anytime soon, but the Office Web apps (and the SharePoint-based enterprise equivalents) are improving regularly. For users that means simple but useful ...