Whether your company uses Excel for payroll and accounting purposes, project management or data collection, being able to automate common processes is hugely beneficial. Excel features a macro ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

Microsoft recently announced that they are adding a feature to Excel that will allow Python code to be embedded and used for advanced analytics. That made me wonder if it might be possible to create ...

A boring setting with huge payoff.

When you hear Excel automation, it’s easy to assume it refers only to those complex, or even basic, VBA scripts and macros that seem too intimidating to edit or reuse. However, with any real, ...

Automation in Excel has advanced well beyond basic formulas and macros, allowing more efficient handling of repetitive tasks. Excel Off The Grid explains how combining Office Scripts with Power ...

Y Combinator Winter Summer 2012 graduate Data Nitro (formerly known as IronSpread) has a simple proposition: it enables you to to use the popular programming language Python in Microsoft Excel. The ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...