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Users with the Public Preview will be able to see Python in the Excel ribbon menu. Those users can bring external data into Python using Power Query and built-in Excel workflows.

Users will be able to enter Python code directly into cells using the new =PY function, as Python will be integrated directly into the Excel grid, with no need to install additional software.

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.

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