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Microsoft's integration of Python into Excel, slated for release in Q3 2024, is a major advance for financial data professionals using Excel as their core analysis tool.

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.

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Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming language that comes standard with most Microsoft Office products like Excel, Word, and Access. VBA lets may develop macros to automate ...