Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet

Re:Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet by f292 on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @06:21AM (#8136233)

Thanks for the feedback. The big pain point we are focussing on is when you are given someone else's spreadsheet that you are not familiar with. It then can take hours to get your head around how they have put it together.

In this regard, Slate is most useful as way of semi-automatically documenting the spreadsheet.

We made the Iron Man example specifically for HN - possibly not the best thing to pitch big financial firms with - fair point!

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Re:Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet by arethuza on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @06:29AM (#8136242)

"It then can take hours"

I've spent weeks trying to understand a large spreadsheet. Mind you, a lot of that was persuading people that I was correct when I said what it was actually doing was at odds with what they though it should have been doing!

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