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Re:Use Spreadsheets Everywhere by sparsely on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:32AM (#28050403)
I think Airtable is starting to get us there, but it's a long way to go.

Something that combined Airtable, excel, and maybe a more userfriendly (and more restricted) version of darklang for defining formulae could be really slick.

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Re:Use Spreadsheets Everywhere by bdcravens on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:48AM (#28050652)
Airtable is pretty, but lacks simple functionality that spreadsheets have had for 30 years (like aggregates across rows). Airtable is more of a replacement for Access than Excel.
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Re:Use Spreadsheets Everywhere by laGrenouille on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:50PM (#28051385)
Airtable is a great example of what I would like to see. Basically, the ability to create sheets that are are like airtable-like that users can reference as usual in other general-purpose excel sheets.
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