Excel updates
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Latest updates
- End of support for Wolfram data typesExcel has discontinued support for Wolfram data types.
- Office Scripts arrives in Excel for Windows DesktopIt’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 dataIt’s here! “Data from picture” saves you from manually entering data into spreadsheets.
- Coming soon: Import spreadsheet data from an imageThis 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 typesA 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… buttonsThere’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 improvementsNow you can duplicate conditional formatting rules and resize conditional formatting dialog boxes.
- Unhide multiple worksheets at onceNow you can unhide multiple sheets at once, thanks to the latest Excel software update.
- Introducing the LAMBDA functionNow you can define your own re-usable functions with LAMBDA