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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by gruseom on Sunday January 11, 2009 @04:43PM (#429640)
Could the "clever protocol" simply be: refresh the numbers when the user refreshes a page?
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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by gsiener on Monday January 12, 2009 @08:04AM (#430423)
The issue with this is that Excel refreshes the active workbook by default after every change. Any quant or someone dealing with huge sheets of formulas learn that you can change this behavior to default to refresh via shift+F9 (I think)
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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by gruseom on Monday January 12, 2009 @02:12PM (#430937)
That's for local changes. I think what we're talking about here is a sheet (at one URL) referencing a completely different sheet (at some other URL). The equivalent in Excel, I suppose, would be one .xls file referencing another.
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