Turn Excel into a lightweight data-science tool for cleaning datasets, standardizing dates, visualizing clusters, and ...

A simple README tab can guide users, document data, and make your shared Excel workbooks much easier to use.

A blind spot in Microsoft’s app and add-in marketplace security allowed an eagle-eyed hacker to hijack an abandoned Outlook add-in to carry out phishing attacks that compromised 4,000 users, ...

They’re easy to learn, and they’ll make you a lot more productive. by Adam Lacey and Deborah Ashby The past 10 years have seen a wave of innovative big data software designed to analyze, manipulate, ...

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...

When you enter longer text than will fit in a normal Excel cell, the excess text either carries over into the next blank cell or is truncated by adjacent data. You have several options to remedy this.

Data entry can be a grueling process in Microsoft Office Excel, especially if you have left out a key component in a column, such as hyphens. Hyphens can help break up long numbers in a spreadsheet, ...

In server-side JavaScript, you will most likely use the fs library for dealing with the filesystem. This library is a module in Node and other platforms like Bun. So you don’t need to install it using ...

To begin, you need to enable the Developer tab in Excel. This tab provides access to the tools required for form creation, but it is not enabled by default. To enable ...

I have a JavaScript Excel Add-in deployed in production, being used by a number of customers. The Add-in includes a custom function. I have added new optional parameters to the function but when I ...

Data analysts often turn to add-ins when they encounter complicated computations in Excel. Here we examine and compare some common add-ins in terms of deployment process, development efficiency, ...