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Latest updates
- Office Scripts in Excel for Windows Desktop
It’s here! Office Scripts, Excel’s latest automation tool, arrives in the main desktop version of Excel. - Data from picture: create a spreadsheet from a picture of data
It’s here! “Data from picture” saves you from manually entering data into spreadsheets. - Coming soon: Import spreadsheet data from an image
This one will be super useful – it’s called “import data from picture” and it’s coming soon to a spreadsheet near you! - Excel JavaScript API and custom data types
A busy day over at Ignite 2021 gives us an early look at a significant new feature in Excel that has the potential to have a huge impact in the coming years. - Office Scripts gets… buttons
There’s a new way to launch a macro with Office Scripts! - Office Scripts in Excel arrives for everyone*
Office Scripts, the Next Big Thing for the long term future of automation in Excel, is now officially here. Well… sort-of. Read on for more information! - Conditional formatting improvements
Now you can duplicate conditional formatting rules and resize conditional formatting dialog boxes. - Unhide multiple worksheets at once
Now you can unhide multiple sheets at once, thanks to the latest Excel software update. - Introducing the LAMBDA function
Now you can define your own re-usable functions with LAMBDA - XLOOKUP and XMATCH: a new lookup to rule them all (almost)
Tired of arguing the relative merits of VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH? Well, now there’s a new one to add. XLOOKUP is here to be a quicker, smarter VLOOKUP and XMATCH overhauls MATCH. Read on for details!