Enabling JavaScript should make Excel more powerful, but increasing access points makes it even more of a web security nightmare than it already is.

In the well-established Office Ready-Fire-Aim tradition, Microsoft adds two new “features” that beg to be abused. Details appeared at Build, and the bad guys already have their keyboards primed.

At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel.

Also, if you try to execute a JavaScript function in an Excel spreadsheet connected to an external server, permission to connect is requested, so it seems to prevent the execution of illegal code.

The questions plaguing users of Microsoft Excel—JavaScript support, slow Mac development cycles, the lack of Easter eggs—all apparently come down to one thing: prioritizing developer resources ...

Within days of Microsoft announcing that they are introducing custom JavaScript equations in Excel, a security researcher has developed a way to use this method to load the CoinHive in-browser ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create ...

The Excel Services REST and SOAP APIs introduced in SharePoint 2010 are SharePoint only, but with the Excel Services JavaScript API you can work with embedded workbooks on a host web page — from ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create custom ...