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MY THOUGHTS ON PYTHON IN EXCEL

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Microsoft's Python in Excel is designed as an alternative to Excel's formula language, not VBA, and integrates Jupyter Notebook cells into the grid. It is not ideal for beginners due to its non-interactive data analysis and challenging diagnostics pane. However, it's still pretty useful for computationally intensive tasks, AI applications, advanced visualizations, and time-series analysis.