• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 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?

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      6 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.