Cannot find Excel in Javascript Chart API - excel

I was trying to use this Microsoft tutorial Excel Chart Add-in - Javascript API
In the first example, it has the code
Excel.run(function (context) {
var sheet = context.workbook.worksheets.getItem("Sample");
var dataRange = sheet.getRange("A1:B13");
var chart = sheet.charts.add("Line", dataRange, "auto");
chart.title.text = "Sales Data";
chart.legend.position = "right"
chart.legend.format.fill.setSolidColor("white");
chart.dataLabels.format.font.size = 15;
chart.dataLabels.format.font.color = "black";
return context.sync();
}).catch(errorHandlerFunction);
If I run the code example I receive 2 errors. One that it cannot find excel from
Excel.run
And the errorhandler function is not defined, which appears to be correct.
Are these typos in new Microsoft documents? If not what have I got to change?
Version: excel 365 online build 16.0.13615.35052

2 things that you need to make sure you have in order to run this code succesfully.
Please add the errorHandlerFunction this could be be as easy as this:
function errorHandlerFunction(e ){
console.log("exception" + e );
}
Make sure you have a worksheet named "Sample". Make sure its exactly that name without trailing blank spaces.

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and
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