Microsoft is adding the Python programming language to Microsoft Excel, allowing users to create powerful functions for analyzing and manipulating data.

With this new feature, users can type in Python code in the Excel app. The calculations are then run on a Microsoft cloud server and are returned to the Excel app, with plots and visualizations.

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 ...

Discover how Python in Excel transforms data analysis with advanced features. Is it worth the hype? Find out if it’s right for your workflow.

How is it different from native Python in Excel? Some of you may be aware that you can run Python in Excel natively. However, it is dependent on a cloud-based Anaconda environment to execute code ...