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Totally agree, we even applied to YC 5 years ago with an excel replacement specifically because of this limitation.

• infogulch 6y ago
  The danger here is that MS can just observe your success and add the feature once you've proved it works, and your nice little blue gulf instantly turns red again. Though I might be interested in a redesign of the formula language; excel's is kinda crusty.
  • Grustaf 6y ago
    The idea had many downsides. But considering how little excel has changed in the 20 years I’ve used it, I wouldn’t be too worried about that particular issue!
    • infogulch 6y ago
      Yet here we are. Microsoft is surprising everybody lately.
• daxfohl 6y ago
  Actually what might be better is "sheet functions". So like pages where you can define input and output cells. Then you top level sheet can invoke the "function" as like "=myfunctionsheet{A1=5, A2=9}.N8". That way you get local scope, etc, and you can do more complex stuff because it's very visual instead of being a mathematical function.
  • daxfohl 6y ago
    Obviously this will be best when used with Name Manager (especially if names can be scoped to the sheet) to name the input and output cells, rather than indexing off the cell ids directly.