Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook
by hakfoo on Saturday February 13, 2021 @08:01PM
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It's interesting that nobody's really leaned into Excel as a RAD tool. Once you have your spreadsheet functioning how you'd like, feed it into a "despreadsheeter". This could be, at a basic level, locking and hiding every possible cell, to running it in an embeddable Excel-like runtime without a lot of UI clutter and foot-guns, up to parsing the formulas, providing a form editor to build the inputs into attractive screens, and spitting up Python/C#/Java/a native binary.
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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook
by rini17 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:53AM
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I believe that generating database schema from excel would require an AI. In wordprocessor you can have heuristics like "user bolded whole paragraph and added newlines - consider that a heading" to guess the document structure but hardly so in spreadsheet.