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Multi-layer excel spreadsheets
Excel sheets should be made multi-layer (or multi-dimensional). It could be
very helpful to be able to keep multiple units information organized in a single "spatial" orientation. This idea is not new, but may be tricky to implement on a Visual Basic backbone. Learning PHP has ruined me as to the ease of array manipulation, and I now find Excel very limiting in its capabilities. The Human mind thinks in 3-D, it's about time our computers did, too. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...et.f unctions |
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Excel sheets should be made multi-layer (or multi-dimensional).
how would you print a report on a 3d-sheet? arno |
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<The Human mind thinks in 3-D
That depends entirely on the subject. Talking about time lines, many people think 1-D. When calculating, many people use the metaphor of accountants spreadsheet paper. Hard to find a better example of 2-D. -- Kind Regards, Niek Otten Microsoft MVP - Excel "AggieBouse06" wrote in message ... Excel sheets should be made multi-layer (or multi-dimensional). It could be very helpful to be able to keep multiple units information organized in a single "spatial" orientation. This idea is not new, but may be tricky to implement on a Visual Basic backbone. Learning PHP has ruined me as to the ease of array manipulation, and I now find Excel very limiting in its capabilities. The Human mind thinks in 3-D, it's about time our computers did, too. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...et.f unctions |
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Format-Cells could be altered to include display preferences, and printing
would be by display. Only drawback there is needing to see more than one peice of data from a cell in a printout. Since you cant do that already, i don't see a problem. "arno" wrote: Excel sheets should be made multi-layer (or multi-dimensional). how would you print a report on a 3d-sheet? arno |
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A single timeline, yes. What if you needed to compare more than one timeline
against each other? (I know outlook does that). You would need another dimension to stack the rest of the data. For basic calculations, 2-D is fine, but as you increase the complexity of the computations (and your boss still insists on using Excel), additional sheets are needed, and programming the formulae becomes increasingly wasteful. The primary question was why hasnt the capacity for this kind off linking been introduced yet? Not everyone would use it, but heck, not everyone uses multiple sheets in a file as it is. The flexibility is what I'm after. All I ask is that the program have an option for increased complexity: not a requirement, but an option. "Niek Otten" wrote: <The Human mind thinks in 3-D That depends entirely on the subject. Talking about time lines, many people think 1-D. When calculating, many people use the metaphor of accountants spreadsheet paper. Hard to find a better example of 2-D. -- Kind Regards, Niek Otten Microsoft MVP - Excel "AggieBouse06" wrote in message ... Excel sheets should be made multi-layer (or multi-dimensional). It could be very helpful to be able to keep multiple units information organized in a single "spatial" orientation. This idea is not new, but may be tricky to implement on a Visual Basic backbone. Learning PHP has ruined me as to the ease of array manipulation, and I now find Excel very limiting in its capabilities. The Human mind thinks in 3-D, it's about time our computers did, too. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...et.f unctions |
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AggieBouse06 wrote:
bull****. arno |
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