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0 pointsbluedino2y ago0 comments

>> Hi I work on Excel, can you write a summary of why that's important to you and send it to

How out of touch with the real world is the Excel team?

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Customer verbatims are like, an incredibly valuable currency. It's all fine to say "I know the product in and out and I think this is important". But it's another thing entirely to say "I know this is important because _this customer right here asked for literally this_".

bluedinoOP2y ago

But how do they not realize that not everyone wants to have the cloud required for a feature in Excel?

CamperBob22y ago

"It is difficult to get a man to implement something when his stock options depend on it remaining unimplemented." -- how a modern-day Sinclair Lewis might answer

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mulmen2y ago

You have an opportunity to expand their perspective and this is the best response you can come up with?

graypegg2y ago

A hacker news comment chain isn’t a great place to follow up on feedback. Email’s alright! I don’t think that’s too out of touch.

rvba2y ago

Will Excel fix linkages between files on sharepoint?

It is horrible..

The amount of lost productivity because "report file" cannot easily connect to "source 1, 2, 3" is very high.

In theory you can do it, but it plain does not work in shared sheets.

IIsi50MHz2y ago

I've possibly seen some of your breakage with Sharepoint, while supporting an integration product between Excel and some enterprise systems.

Does the problem persist if you ensure the other source files are open before opening "report file"?

If opening the files in the right order solves it, then it may be possible to script this in Excel or in an Excel add-in (optionally, signed).

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