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 ...

The Excel team has just finished a two-year effort to move content rendering in Excel on the web from the HTML DOM to Canvas (and still maintain Office accessibility standards). “We used to draw ...

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

As an Excel for the web user, you’ll want to use Office Scripts anytime you often repeat the same task. For instance, you might import foreign data once a day and spend a bit of time scrubbing ...

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.

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 new Excel API allows developers to load, create, edit, and save Excel sheets, and the Excel Web Editor integrates into existing HTML and JavaScript applications.

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 ...

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

The problem, the Excel team said, is that Microsoft now has to support several platforms—Windows desktop, Windows mobile, Mac, iOS, Android, and the Web, among others—which implicitly prevents ...