VBA is a powerful program that enables non-programmers to create and edit macros. Learn how to enable & use VBA in Microsoft Excel.

For this project, I created a VBA (Visual Basic) script to analyze some stock market data. The data is inside a Microsoft Excel workbook and includes stock data for three years (2014, 2015, and 2016).

If approved, Excel users would be able to use Python scripts to interact with Excel documents, their data, and some of Excel's core functions, similar to how Excel currently supports VBA scripts.

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.

Although power users have long been able to use Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to script Excel, and Microsoft is expected to support JavaScript in Office, Python is a strong ...