Re:Autocorrect errors in Excel still creating genomics headache
by wtallis on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:16PM
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> But this would come at the cost of not being able to mix types in column, and a lot of people want to be able to mix.
I feel like a lot of the desire for this comes from Excel's desire to fill the screen with a single infinite spreadsheet. Apple's Numbers and some other programs make it more natural to have multiple separate tables on screen, each of which can have their own header rows and columns and separate type and format rules for those columns/rows. Excel more or less forces people to emulate this capability by just using a separate region of the same table, which gets in the way of applying consistent formatting and typing rules to whole columns or rows.
I feel like a lot of the desire for this comes from Excel's desire to fill the screen with a single infinite spreadsheet. Apple's Numbers and some other programs make it more natural to have multiple separate tables on screen, each of which can have their own header rows and columns and separate type and format rules for those columns/rows. Excel more or less forces people to emulate this capability by just using a separate region of the same table, which gets in the way of applying consistent formatting and typing rules to whole columns or rows.