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Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by cm2187 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:43PM (#15545083)
Assuming all you ever care about is tabular data.

If you are building a business plan in Excel, or trying to explain how the financial accounts consolidates in a large organisation with multiple subsidiaries, tables are not particular useful.

That's the catch with Excel. One application, thousands of very different use cases.

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Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by addicted on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:30PM (#15545420)
So how do named columns help with non-tabular data?
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Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by cm2187 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:38PM (#15545460)
That's my point, they don't. If your table is a complex calculation, not data, named columns don't help you.
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