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    Excel Custom Functions: Straight to the Point
    Excel Custom Functions: Straight to the Point
    Excel Custom Functions: Straight to the Point
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    Excel Custom Functions: Straight to the Point

    By Suat M Ozgur

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    Excel users are used to build custom functions—called user-defined functions (UDFs)—in Windows and Mac versions of the application. UDFs can be simply written in Visual Basic Editor (VBE) using the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language.UDFs are not portable to Excel Online and Excel for iOS due to the missing VBA capability on these platforms. Therefore, Microsoft has improved the JavaScript API that was already being used for Office add-in development to allow developers to create custom functions attached to the add-ins. These custom functions can be used like any other native functions or UDFs in Excel. While Microsoft calls these functions JavaScript custom functions, they can also be called JavaScript UDFs, which is the name used in this book.This book shows the process of creating JavaScript UDFs in Excel in Developer Preview for Office Insider program subscribers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJul 19, 2019
    ISBN9781615472598
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      Excel Custom Functions - Suat M Ozgur

      Straight to the Point

      The Straight to the Point e-books are designed to thoroughly cover one targeted aspect of Excel.

      EXCEL CUSTOM FUNCTIONS

      Straight to the Point

      Suat M. Ozgur

      Holy Macro! Books

      PO Box 541731, Merritt Island FL 32953

      Excel Custom Functions

      © 2019 by Suat M. Ozgur

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information or storage retrieval system without written permission from the publisher.

      All terms known in this book known to be trademarks have been appropriately capitalized. Trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are not affiliated with Holy Macro! Books

      Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and accurate as possible, but no warranty or fitness is implied. The information is provided on an as is basis. The authors and the publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this book.

      First Published: July 2019

      Author: Suat M. Ozgur

      Cover Design: Shannon Travise, Creative Correspondence

      Cover Illustration: Shannon Mattiza, 6'4 Productions

      Technical Editor: Bill Jelen

      Published by: Holy Macro! Books, PO Box 541731, Merritt Island, FL 32953

      Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago, IL

      ISBN 978-1-61547-259-8

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      About the Author

      About This Book

      Quick Start

      Microsoft Script Lab

      Installing and Using Microsoft Script Lab

      Getting Prepared

      Installing the Development Tools

      Node.js

      Git

      Yeoman Generator for Office Add-ins

      Visual Studio Code

      Creating the Office Add-in

      Yeoman Office Generator

      Getting Familiar

      Add-in Source Files and File Structures

      The JavaScript Functions File—/src/functions/functions.js

      The JSON Metadata File—/dist/functions.json

      The Loader HTML File—/src/functions/functions.html

      The Add-in Manifest File

      Warming Up

      Creating a New Function

      JSDoc Tags

      Function Body

      Function Name Association

      Building the Add-in and Testing the Function

      Testing the Custom Function in Excel Online

      Creating a New Function to Accept a Range as a Parameter

      Debugging the Custom Function

      Getting Confident

      Fetching Data from Web Services

      Using a Web Service for Stock Prices

      Adding an Asynchronous Function

      Fetching Multiple Symbol Prices with a Single Web Service Call

      Batching Web Service Calls as a Better Alternative to Array Formula

      Creating a Streaming Custom Function

      Returning Two-Dimensional Array from a Streaming Function

      Wrapping Up

      Final Words

      What's Next?

      The Final Function Code

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      Introduction

      About the Author

      Suat M. Ozgur has worked behind the scenes with MrExcel.com since 2002. He has been using JavaScript since 2005. When Microsoft introduced the new Excel Custom Functions, he was uniquely qualified to work with them, thanks to his experience in both JavaScript and Excel.

      Suat is the author of

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