Microsoft has announced support for JavaScript custom functions in Excel, researchers show concern over security.

Microsoft recently announced a developer preview release supporting JavaScript to create custom functions directly in Excel. This addition moves beyond the existing Microsoft Office JavaScript API ...

Applies to: Excel 2016 This task pane add-in shows how to create a college credits tracker using the JavaScript APIs in Excel 2016. It comes in two flavors: text editor and Visual Studio.

Microsoft Excel gets custom JavaScript Functions and Power BI visualizations Frederic Lardinois 8:30 AM PDT · May 7, 2018 ...

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 ...

Excel Formula Utilities for JavaScript Excel Formula Utilities for JavaScript is a library that can be used to pretty print excel formulas or convert excel formulas into JavaScript. The JavaScript ...

Microsoft announced May 7, 2018 that adding JavaScript custom functions to ExcelAnnouncementHowever, a security demonstration demonstration demonstration demonstrating the virtual currency mining ...

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

It didn’t take long at all for a security researcher to demonstrate how easy it was to turn an Excel spreadsheet into a cryptomining machine.

But in the past few weeks, we’ve been introduced to two new features that have “Kick Me” written all over them. First, JavaScript in Excel. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?