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Make Undo stacks track per workbook instead of globally
Undo stacks are currently global between all workbooks that are open at a given time, so pressing undo on one workbook might undo a change in a different workbook. As someone who frequently has multiple workbooks open at a time, it would be much more helpful to be able to step through the edits made on each individual workbook.
873 votesThanks again for all the passion on this issue – we hear you and we’ll get someone on the team to dig in to the issue. I’ve seen a few related sub-issues while scanning over the comment section for this one, so we may reach out to a few of you for clarifications. Thanks again for all the votes, and keep them coming for the issues you care about!
John, Excel
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IP Address as a datatype.
I would love to see IP Addresses added as a format option and functions added for validation of the IP addresses..
For instance InSubnet(Network as IP,Netmask as Integer,address as IP) to determine if an IP is within a Subnet;
Being able to do addition/subtraction on the field would be awesome as well!
258 votesThanks for the suggestion Alex, and thanks to those that making their vote heard. This is a pretty interesting ask – take a look at the comment I made. I’d like us to understand a few related things. And as always, please keep voting for the things you care about most.
Cheers,
John [MS XL] -
Allow us to turn off automatic conversion to date
Search for "make excel stop converting numbers to dates" and you will see the user demand for this feature. Please for the love of all that is holy let this be at least an advanced user setting.
295 votesThanks for the suggestion Jessica. We’ve got a few other suggestions on the site that are similar with scientific notation, etc. We’ll take a look at this area, and pay special attention to any cases that get a lot of votes. So please keep the votes coming to help us do a good job at prioritizing asks like this!
Cheers,
John [MS XL] -
Protect me from #REF! ambushes
Every so often I delete cells and unbeknownst to me create a bunch of #REF! errors in another part of my worksheet. I may not realize until much later when I can no longer undo back to fix the error. Excel could spare me this. If my deletion is about to create #REF!s it should bring up an alert like "Other cells depend on the cells you are about to delete. Would you like Excel to adjust their formulas to avoid #REF! errors? [Yes][No][Cancel]. [No] would do what it does today. [Cancel] would abort the operation. [Yes] would smartly substitute…
101 votesThanks to RH for posting this suggestion. If avoiding #REF! errors is important to you also, please add your vote to support RH’s suggestion. We will prioritize accordingly.
Thanks,
Steve (MS Excel) -
Give user option to NOT take selected/all Defined Names to new workbook when copying worksheet
If you copy a worksheet from one workbook to another, Excel currently also automatically copies ALL Defined Names (even if there is no range in the source workbook to which these refer!). It will also copy without warning names with a different scope to an existing name in the target workbook (i.e. If an existing name has Workbook scope, a copied Sheet scoped name will be copied without an warning of the duplication!). This can result in a huge number of redundant or conflicting Names in the target workbook.
47 votesThanks for the suggestion Col. We’ll prioritize taking a look at this according to how many votes it gets, so please keep voting for the things you like most!
Thanks,
John [MS XL] -
Prominent Manual Calculation Mode warning
Given the great danger of not realising that calculation mode is set to Manual, it would be very beneficial if a "Manual Calculation Mode" indicator (in bright fire-engine red!) was displayed (and visibility maintained until calc mode is switched back to non-manual) in a prominent location - such as in the Title Bar to the left of the Minimize button.
33 votesThanks for the suggestion Col. There’s a lot to do, and we’ll take a look at getting this into the plans according to the number of votes – vote on!
Thanks,
John [MS XL]
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