You can even create custom functions using VBA. Python shines with its vast ecosystem of libraries. It’s an excellent choice for tasks that involve integrating Excel with other systems.

Microsoft is adding the Python programming language to Microsoft Excel, allowing users to create powerful functions for analyzing and manipulating data.

What if you could run advanced Excel analyses with no coding skills? Here's how Microsoft's Copilot in Excel could use Python to allow you to do just that.

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.