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I can't imagine the use case for having more than 1 font in a spreadsheet. Please elaborate. I'm pretty sure Excel is the wrong tool for whatever job you are th

I can't imagine the use case for having more than 1 font in a spreadsheet. Please elaborate. I'm pretty sure Excel is the wrong tool for whatever job you are throwing at it.

skeeter2020 2y ago
Maybe a title, and perhaps some callout cells? but more than 8? I'm stretching to find a use case requiring 3 or 4.
jen729w 2y ago
> I'm pretty sure Excel is the wrong tool for whatever job you are throwing at it. Thanks, you completed my bingo card.
kichimi 2y ago
I feel like this is a pretty important thing for the technically minded to get their heads around. Doesn't the fact that you can't imagine a single reason why youd want multiple fonts on a spreadsheet alarm you?
- leptons 2y ago
  Excel is for spreadsheets, 9+ fonts is not really a common use case for a spreadsheet. It sounds like OP is trying to do graphic design in Excel, but we'll probably never find out.
fragmede 2y ago
You're pretty sure it's the wrong tool, but you can't imagine a use case for a fairly basic feature of said tool? Why do I now doubt your assertion?
- leptons 2y ago
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  - fragmede 2y ago
    Sure, nine is a lot, but your comment says "more than 1 font". Without arguing the semantics of what you meant by "font", hopefully using different font sizes and emphasis (bold/italics) do make sense to you. If those make sense, then using a different font entirely shouldn't be too complicated to see as a feature that an Excel user who's not using it for graphics design reasonably want. Legibility is an important consideration, and with Excel, the size of sheets tend to grow until there are too many columns. So now you have the normal regular size font and you use a different font that's more legible at small sizes, especially when rotated 90. There have been umpteen attempts to replace Excel. User interviews to understand how customers actually use the tool are important. Having the hubris to say customers are doing it wrong without even bothering to understand their use case is the first step to failing at replacing Excel. Don't get me wrong, I cringe every time I fire up a spreadsheet and it grows past a reasonable size or length of use, or any number of shortcomings. Sometimes I even switch tools or write my own when that happens but lately I find Airtable's a pretty good replacement for most human (aka not finance) use of spreadsheets.
    - leptons 2y ago
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PebblesRox 2y ago
I had a friend who used Excel to render blueprints for the dream house she was designing. As an architecture student, I was both impressed and horrified!

I can't imagine the use case for having more than 1 font in a spreadsheet. Please elaborate. I'm pretty sure Excel is the wrong tool for whatever job you are throwing at it.

skeeter2020 2y ago

Maybe a title, and perhaps some callout cells? but more than 8? I'm stretching to find a use case requiring 3 or 4.

jen729w 2y ago

> I'm pretty sure Excel is the wrong tool for whatever job you are throwing at it. Thanks, you completed my bingo card.

kichimi 2y ago

I feel like this is a pretty important thing for the technically minded to get their heads around. Doesn't the fact that you can't imagine a single reason why youd want multiple fonts on a spreadsheet alarm you?

leptons 2y ago
Excel is for spreadsheets, 9+ fonts is not really a common use case for a spreadsheet. It sounds like OP is trying to do graphic design in Excel, but we'll probably never find out.

fragmede 2y ago

You're pretty sure it's the wrong tool, but you can't imagine a use case for a fairly basic feature of said tool? Why do I now doubt your assertion?

leptons 2y ago
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- fragmede 2y ago
  Sure, nine is a lot, but your comment says "more than 1 font". Without arguing the semantics of what you meant by "font", hopefully using different font sizes and emphasis (bold/italics) do make sense to you. If those make sense, then using a different font entirely shouldn't be too complicated to see as a feature that an Excel user who's not using it for graphics design reasonably want. Legibility is an important consideration, and with Excel, the size of sheets tend to grow until there are too many columns. So now you have the normal regular size font and you use a different font that's more legible at small sizes, especially when rotated 90. There have been umpteen attempts to replace Excel. User interviews to understand how customers actually use the tool are important. Having the hubris to say customers are doing it wrong without even bothering to understand their use case is the first step to failing at replacing Excel. Don't get me wrong, I cringe every time I fire up a spreadsheet and it grows past a reasonable size or length of use, or any number of shortcomings. Sometimes I even switch tools or write my own when that happens but lately I find Airtable's a pretty good replacement for most human (aka not finance) use of spreadsheets.
  - leptons 2y ago
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PebblesRox 2y ago

I had a friend who used Excel to render blueprints for the dream house she was designing. As an architecture student, I was both impressed and horrified!