Ask HN: Excel experts – Formula IDE in Excel (MVP screenshot) – is it useful?

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11 years ago

Inspired by two discussions that happened this week about problems with Excel I thought of a simple

Excel add-in and would love to hear your opinion.

The aim is to let Excel users write formulas in simple IDE inside Excel. Instead of editing each of them in a formula bar you could just edit all formulas in one file (or for more advanced projects in multiple files).

What are the advantages? You could save your formulas to a separate file and import them through the add-in. This lets you easily share your formulas with others and add version control and code review to your project.

Checkout this awesome MVP I've just built in Paint: http://i.imgur.com/yBaFArn.png

Questions I was inspired by:

Ask HN: Language compiled to Excel spreadsheets? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941086

Ask HN: What are the biggest problems with spreadsheets? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935357

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