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[-] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 17 points 5 months ago

You also can't open two spreadsheets that have the same filename. I'm sure that's led to a helpdesk call or two.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I lost a lot of respect for Microsoft when I first saw that issue. It's such an easy to avoid limitation. Like probably a similar level of difficulty to remove that limitation than to write the error message explaining it, unless it's more of a spaghetti mess than I'm expecting it to be.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

It’s to do with the ability to work with data across all open workbooks:

You can reference [Workbook.xlsx]Sheet1!B2 but if you have two excel workbooks open, both named Workbook.xlsx which one should be used?

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you want to reference other files, you should use a less ambiguous way to refer to them. Like a relative path or full absolute path. The fact that that weakness is because of a half-baked feature like that actually makes me lose even more respect.

Edit: thanks for the info though, it does add some missing context.

[-] psud@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

So throw an error at runtime on that macro, most workbooks aren't the target of a macro

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Whichever one has the smallest relative path to the workbook using it? How does it find the workbook if it isn't open already?

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago
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