Post #3672468
2026-07-08 13:00 UTC
Replies (7)
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-07-08 18:10
@aesthr@wandering.shop yeah... with excel, UI/UX really stands for User Interface Universally eXcrement...
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-07-08 19:48
@aesthr@wandering.shop I understand why, and if you don’t want to be traumatised, I suggest you stop reading now. A spreadsheet is not actually the document unit for Excel. Any open sheet can refer to cells in any other open sheet (hmm, I wonder if anyone has exploited that with sheets that fetch from external data sources to extract other information). By default, any cell reference is in the current sheet, but you can include other files by name and their cells will be used but only if they are open. This means that any editing operation may affect any other open sheets and so, logically, it follows that undo should apply to the document (all open sheets) and not simply one sheet. This is also why Excel does not let you open two sheets with the same file name at the same time. If you do, cross-sheet references would be ambiguous. Remember, they don’t refer to files as paths or some kind of unique document identifier, they reference other sheets by file name from the set of open files.
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@paco@infosec.exchange 2026-07-08 21:36
@aesthr@wandering.shop Next month Microsoft will release a feature that finds Word documents written by other people at your org who relied on the numbers in your spreadsheet. Then, if you undo in your spreadsheet, Copilot will go adjust the text their documents too. (And now you have to go do an internet search and try to figure out whether I made that up or if it’s real!)
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@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange 2026-07-09 07:19
@aesthr@wandering.shop ~ vibe code ~
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@florisbiskamp@mastodon.social 2026-07-08 13:10
@aesthr@wandering.shop Yeah, copying/cutting/pasting between files is also weirdly delicate.
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@sotolf@polymaths.social 2026-07-08 13:25
@aesthr@wandering.shop Hmm, doesn't seem to be the case with Excel 2019 at least I had two windows with two different files open, and undo redo is localised to each of them.
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@matoakit@beach.city 2026-07-08 13:28
@aesthr@wandering.shop I use excel daily, and I hate this "Feature". I only want to modify the excel in the active screen, if it does anything else it's wrong. This site has some options for work arounds, but the best one the registry edit can't be done on corporate machines. https://spreadsheetplanet.com/open-multiple-instances-excel/