Show HN: A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets

Re:Show HN: A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets by selfportrait on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:11AM (#30669671)

What is missing in Sheets that would save you 20 hours a week vs. Excel? Genuinely curious to hear real world examples from a power user, because in the worst case scenario I use JS/G Apps Script to automate analysis/organization, which is actually a preference for me if I can't do it easily enough with a formula. I also can't stand Excel UI

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Re:Show HN: A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets by julianz on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:43AM (#30670325)

If you name a cell in Excel, then use it in a formula by clicking on the cell, Excel will use the name in the formula. Sheets won't, which misses the whole point of naming cells.

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Re:Show HN: A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets by shp0ngle on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:40AM (#30669857)

I switched from Google Sheet to Excel when I needed to actually do some work on phone.

Google Sheets are surprisingly bad on phone. I wanted to "just" do drag-to-fill (or whatever is the name... that + thing that appears when you go to bottom right)... I could not do that on iOS Google Sheets?

And in general, Google Sheets on mobile are surprisingly poor.

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Re:Show HN: A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets by remus on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:57AM (#30670427)

Im interested in this too as my experience is the same as yours.

Personally I feel like going in to JS/G apps script is actually a big bonus as it means you avoid some of the really gross stuff that you get in excel (which ime ends up being really hard to maintain).

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Re:Show HN: A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets by dhruval on Monday March 14, 2022 @10:47AM (#30673071)

For larger spreadsheets google sheets is far less performant than Excel, even the cloud version of Excel.

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