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Re:It’s Time for ‘Maximum Viable Product’ by wildrhythms on Saturday December 03, 2022 @10:31PM (#33850316)
I don't think this adequately addresses the counterexample of the Word toolbars. Sure, there's Excel, but what if I want the tabular data to live in my Word document? Now the Microsoft engineers are building a whole secondary table editing system into a word processor...
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Re:It’s Time for ‘Maximum Viable Product’ by shakna on Saturday December 03, 2022 @10:44PM (#33850379)
If everything is modular, you can copy any feature between the various parts of your office applications. You've got a plugin doing one thing, and a host whose one thing is bundling all of those one things together.
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Re:It’s Time for ‘Maximum Viable Product’ by jimmaswell on Saturday December 03, 2022 @10:47PM (#33850394)
This could just call Excel with COM
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Re:It’s Time for ‘Maximum Viable Product’ by kevingadd on Saturday December 03, 2022 @11:43PM (#33850683)
This is one of the things that motivated the creation of OLE and COM, so that you could embed an entire Excel spreadsheet into a Word document.
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