Let’s be honest— Microsoft Excel is a powerhouse, but it can also feel like a time sink. Whether you’re formatting endless tables, sorting mountains of data, or generating the same reports over and ...

Microsoft announced a new Office Scripts feature for Excel on the web. The feature lets you create automated scripts that make it easy to repeat steps within spreadsheets. You can use Excel's Action ...

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.

Office Scripts extract Excel hyperlink URLs without macros; results are hardcoded so the file can stay .xlsx, reuse is straightforward.

We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell. In a recent series of posts, I explained how to launch a PowerShell script ...

Microsoft has published a changelog of all the features it added to Excel in January 2023. It contains several improvements that will be appreciated by customers looking to automate activities.

Enhancements in the .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 make Office automation solutions easier than ever to write and deploy. Here's an Excel automation scenario that reflects solutions that I've ...

The addition of native in-cell checkboxes to Excel in 2024 finally ended the era of clunky, floating checkboxes from the Developer tab. They're simple to add and manually check—but this ease of use is ...