Shortly after Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel, someone demonstrated what could possibly go wrong if this feature is abused for malicious purposes. As promised last ...

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So you want to create real Excel workbooks from JavaScript. It's actually pretty straightforward: you define how the workbook looks in Excel, and then use Connected Workbooks to load a template, ...

Before we go further, it is important to note that this is just a proof of concept and to even use custom functions in Excel, you first need to be using the Office Insider version of Excel and to ...

We need to setup up environment and all the required modules with configurations i.e node.js, nod-java bridge and express server. We used Aspose.Cells for Node.js via ...

Microsoft has added the ability for users to create custom Javascript functions in Excel spreadsheets, creating concern among security experts. According to Excel program managers Michael Saunders and ...

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 ...