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by sebazzz 2308 days ago
Problem is that VBA in its current shape doesn't work for webbased Excel. Microsoft started with attempting to support Javascript based add-ins [0].

However, they those are of course light years behind in terms of API support. Never even mind that on the desktop Excel the javascript runs in the Internet Explorer engine (of all things, not even the EdgeHTML engine).

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/excel/ex...

3 comments

It isnt the end of the world having different support on different platforms.
the last thing of your sentence isn't true anymore: https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/office/dev/add-ins/concepts...

it really depends on your platform/version. Keep in mind that they try to use chromium in 2020.

In theory, MS can compile the VBA engine to web assembly and run VBA code directly on webpage?