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The Numbers app on OSX does something quite like this. It's highly underrated, but having a number of smaller, floating spread sheets in one big sandbox is waa
by chillingeffect 11y ago
The Numbers app on OSX does something quite like this. It's highly underrated, but having a number of smaller, floating spread sheets in one big sandbox is waaaaay better for many things than a single sheet. I think the concept should be pushed even further.
- nokome 11y agoHey, Stencila developer here. Yes, I agree. I recently came across the Numbers app when I was writing this. I haven't used it but from what I have read it seems to have some really good ideas for improving the spreadsheet interface.
- Someone 11y agoThe UI is clunkier than that of Numbers, but you can do something similar in Excel with tables (blocks in a sheet that you somewhat enforce some structure on. See https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Overview-of-Excel-tables-7ab0bb7d-3a9e-4b56-a3c9-6c94334e492c https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Overview-of-Excel-t...). And of course, Excel can flag cells that, according to its heuristics, seem to use inconsistent formulas, such as using empty cells in a summation, or having one cell in a column use a different formula.