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For Insider, When Will Python in Excel & New GROUPBY & PIVOTBY Functions Appear?
Steve1330 , you are welcome.
As a comment, Beta is stable enough, serious issues here are very seldom. The main problem is compatibility if you share files with someone else or work in different environments.
In many cases two weeks is quite fast even for the covering of 100% on Beta channel. The way from Beta to Current (Preview) could take months.
Another six weeks goes by, now nearly 4 1/2 months since their introduction 11/14/23, and still, I and many other MS 365 Insider (Preview) subscribers are not yet seeing the new GROUPBY & PIVOTBY functions. Again MS, WTF is taking you so long to roll these out? (My latest updated version: Microsoft® Excel® for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2403 Build 16.0.17425.20124) 64-bit).
Steve
Concrete build doesn't matter. Are you on Beta or on Current (Preview) channel? If the first it shall work.
- Sergei:
It's now been over six months since Excel introduced the GROUPBY & PIVOTBY functions 11/14/23, and many of us in the MS 365 Insider (Preview) subscribers have STILL not yet seen them available to us. Anyone doing any real work over there at Microsoft?
SteveSteve, I'm not working on Microsoft and don't know details. Long period on Beta is not something unusual. For lambdas and helping functions it took more than an year as I remember. During this period Microsoft collects statistics of usage on different configurations and in different scenarios, collects feedbacks, makes corrections if necessary. In particular, to PIVOTBY was added another parameter just few days ago. And that shall be done for the majority of the supported in Office languages.
Current (Preview) is the last resort before deploying to production. If nothing critical relatively short period here and after that it goes on Current.
But all above is only my vision of the situation.