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Re:Microsoft’s making Excel’s formulas even easier by unsupp0rted on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:35PM (#34177595)
Yup, javascript: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/excel/c...
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Re:Microsoft’s making Excel’s formulas even easier by rr808 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:43PM (#34177667)
Ah interesting thanks, I'll have to try it out.
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Re:Microsoft’s making Excel’s formulas even easier by cm2187 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:49PM (#34177730)
Is it fast? For instance there is a large overhead to using VBA UDF, whereas XLL (and ExcelDNA) is pretty fast (matters if the formula is repeated over and over on a spreadsheet).
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Re:Microsoft’s making Excel’s formulas even easier by unsupp0rted on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:52PM (#34177769)
Not sure how it compares to XLL but I'd wager the bottleneck, in my case, is the API calls.
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