Microsoft Excel now lets you run Python scripts on images to detect sharpness, edit visuals, and analyze metadata.

“Excel is the backbone of data analysis in business; with Python in Excel,” said Benoit Barabe, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Excel. “We’re extending what is possible for our community and ...

M icrosoft just announced new feature for Python in Excel that lets you analyze images in your spreadsheets. You no longer ...

Python and Excel can only really talk to each other through limited functions—xl () and =PY ()—that can only return code results, not macros, VBA code, or other data, Microsoft claims.

In such instances, all I have to do is select the data in Excel and write Python scripts inside the Jupyter Notebook to perform the relevant function.