Excel Automation, Introduction
An Excel tutorial by Peter Kalmström
 Turn
manual steps into automatic processes with the Excel automation
tools!
The Office Scripts automation features are currently available
for Excel Online as well as for newer Windows and Mac versions
of Excel. They are written in the object-oriented programming
language TypeScript, which is a superset of JavaScript.
TypeScript runs inside Excel itself and is considered very
secure.
With the Automate tools, you can create scripts that automate
repetitive tasks, either from scratch or by recording. The
scripts can be added to the workbook with or without a button.
You can also combine the Excel automation with other applications,
for example by adding the Excel action "Run script" to a
Power Automate flow.
To use Office Scripts, you must have a commercial (E3/E5)
or Education Microsoft 365 subscription and a stable internet
connection. Windows users also need to have
Microsoft Edge WebView2 installed.
By deafult, Office Scripts are stored in the creator's OneDrive.
Remember that Excel recognizes and runs a script only if
it’s located in there or in a SharePoint folder, or if it
is shared with the workbook.
All scripts that are available for a workbook can be reached
via the "All Scripts" command. Microsoft also supplies multiple
sample scripts.
We intend to publish a series of Tips-articles with demos
on how the Excel Automate feature can be used. Several articles
have downloadable scripts. For some articles, we also supply
downloadable Excel files, but you cannot see or run the
scripts in these files, as they have not been shared with
you.
These are the articles published so far:
Recurring
Tasks Management:
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