Excel might be the world's most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to turn it into a better and more powerful programming language, without losing what makes it Excel.

Despite its success, considered as a programming language Excel has fundamental weaknesses. Over the years, two particular shortcomings have stood out: (1) the Excel formula language really only ...

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing ...

Open-source Excel add-in in C#/.NET4.0 that makes Matrix, Vector, and most importantly Table valued functions of .net library Finaquant Calcs available for Excel users and programmers. Based on ...

Excel is now powered by LAMBDA, a new programming language that addresses the shortcomings Excel’s formula system had in the past.

Excel has SumIf and CountIf, but no AverageIf. However, with a little array magic, you can get Excel to average values, conditionally. Simply insert the following form as an array: =AVERAGE(IF ...

Microsoft is taking steps to disable Excel XLL files downloaded from the internet in an attempt to block an attack vector popular among criminals. The company attributes the change, which takes effect ...