For years, VBA (Virtual Basic for Applications) has been the go-to language for automating tasks and extending the functionality of Microsoft Excel. However, the rise of Python, coupled with its ...

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.

When you want to run a Python file from Excel/VBA, the basic idea I've used successfully in the past (on Windows machines) is to write some VBA that calls a shell/command line interpreter and tells it ...

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.