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So I started on the same work with the idea of extracting all relevant information from all cells (value ranges, values, formulas), exporting to TXT and then bu
by wjnc 5y ago
So I started on the same work with the idea of extracting all relevant information from all cells (value ranges, values, formulas), exporting to TXT and then building a conversion layer. I didn’t get there but what was informative was the sparsity of information in a big spreadsheet. Most cells in the few models I had for testing have only a few that actually do meaningful stuff. Most are fluff. One of the yet untouched harder parts is the conversion of Excel-specific formulas. The Excels I had used mainly basic math and lookups (thousands of them), not many of the built-in Excel formulas. (Any tips on my approach are very welcome, VBA for Excel isn’t hard but quite hard to Google.)
- snoopen 5y agoNot sure what you are trying to achieve but the majority of Excel formulas I see used most should be relatively easy to reimplement. Some like SUMPRODUCT, AGGREGATE and the specialised finance ones might be harder to reimplement. The trickier bit might be getting the evaluation order right.