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Automate Microsoft Excel with Office Scripts

Increase productivity and eliminate repetitive tasks by automating Microsoft Excel with Office Scripts. Watch this course to learn how to create, edit, run, and share scripts across your organization.

Intermediate
49m

Created by Ben Howard

Last Updated Apr 28, 2026

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Automate Microsoft Excel with Office Scripts

Increase productivity and eliminate repetitive tasks by automating Microsoft Excel with Office Scripts. Watch this course to learn how to create, edit, run, and share scripts across your organization.

Intermediate
49m

Created by Ben Howard

Last Updated Apr 28, 2026

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What you'll learn

This course will teach you how to automate and streamline everyday Excel tasks using Office Scripts.  In this course, Automate Microsoft Excel with Office Scripts, you’ll gain the ability to create, edit, and run TypeScript-based scripts that automate essential and repeatable Excel workflows. First, you’ll explore Office Scripts fundamentals, including licensing considerations, script recording, and editing scripts using the Code Editor. Next, you’ll discover how to write basic scripts to work with workbooks, worksheets, ranges, and tables, and how to run and validate scripts in Excel. Finally, you’ll learn how to build practical automation workflows using control flow, reusable functions, error handling, plus effective script storage and versioning strategies. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge needed to design, manage, and troubleshoot Office Scripts that improve efficiency, consistency, and productivity in Microsoft Excel.

Automate Microsoft Excel with Office Scripts
Intermediate
49m
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Ben Howard - Pluralsight course - Automate Microsoft Excel with Office Scripts
Ben Howard
37 courses 4.6 author rating 1953 ratings

Ben is a Power BI & Data Specialist with a healthy interest in Microsoft Project with over 30 years of customer and implementation experience. He has been a Microsoft MVP for 13 years, is a frequent speaker at several European conferences, and blogs and creates videos on a semi-regular basis.

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