Excel offers a visual, interactive interface where users can directly manipulate cells, apply formulas with a single click, ...

You no longer need to deal with Excel’s chart formatting options for hours. The possibilities are endless here. It’s entirely up to your databases, requirements, and, of course, Python knowledge.

Excel users will be able to create formulas, PivotTables, and charts all based on Python data, ... Python in Excel is available now as a public preview for Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta Channel.

“You can manipulate and explore data in Excel using Python plots and libraries, and then use Excel’s formulas, charts and PivotTables to further refine your insights,” Kinnestrand wrote.

Python and Excel can only really talk to each other through limited functions—xl() and =PY()—that can only return code results, not macros, VBA code, or other data, Microsoft claims.

Microsoft today announced the public preview of Python in Excel, which will allow advanced spreadsheet users to combine scripts in the popular Python language and their usual Excel formulas in the ...

If you’ve been feeling constrained by Microsoft Excel’s methods for manipulating data, you’re in luck—Python can now be used within your spreadsheets. The inclusion of the popular ...