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Gerdami Des Betes

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  1. Show Recently Used Folders as the Default for Save As Function

    13 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Opening and Saving Files  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  2. Open multiple files with the same file name

    23 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Opening and Saving Files  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  3. Remove unused styles

    15 votes
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    5 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Editing  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    Why not simply add the RemoveStyles button available from https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=removestyles ?

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  4. New *IFs function to accept any aggregating function

    13 votes
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    7 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formulas and Functions  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    Yes, I was about to ask for MINIFS and MAXIFS.

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  5. Increase the 218 character filename length limit to open files in excel

    508 votes
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    161 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Opening and Saving Files  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    @Jon (April 1 2018) is right, see:
    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
    https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/fc85630e-5684-4df6-ad2f-5a128de3deef/260-character-explorer-path-length-limit
    https://lifehacker.com/windows-10-allows-file-names-longer-than-260-characters-1785201032

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  6. Improve the Conditional Formatting Manager

    253 votes
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    47 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formatting  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Accepting Votes  ·  AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded

    Thanks for the suggestion Levi! We’ll be taking a look at this along with some other asks around conditional formatting. It’s a big help to see the things with the most votes, particularly within areas like formatting. So please keep the votes coming for things you want us to do sooner!

    Thanks,
    John [MS XL]

    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    While I welcomed predefined conditional formatting rules with Excel 2010, I found that the original version was easier to manage.

    On the web you can find articles about "conditional formatting nightmare", such as

    http://blog.contextures.com/archives/2012/06/21/excel-2010-conditional-formatting-nightmare/

    Just another example: if you want to grey #N/As, intuitively you may try "cell value = #N/A": it does not work. You have to use a formula such as "=ISNA(cell)".

    Please make it simple to use!

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  7. Support inline variables in formulas (similar to PowerPivot)

    18 votes
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    6 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formulas and Functions  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    Or something like this

    =VAR(X=expression, Y=expression [, ...]), IF(evaluation of combination of X and Y, value_if_true_perhaps_based_on_X , value_if_false_perhaps_based_on_Y)

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  8. Opening two workbooks with same name

    20 votes
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    3 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Editing  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    Duplicate idea of https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/19995313-opening-two-workbooks-with-same-name

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    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    I fully support this idea.
    I regularly download same files from same statistical office and I need to open them at the same time to see the changes. For now, I have to rename the new files.

  9. Finally allow multiple open files with same base filename

    10 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Opening and Saving Files  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  10. Make it easier to find external links

    270 votes
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    27 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Viewing / Navigating Workbooks  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    Wow, it is already under review ... since 24 September 2015!

    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    I have been using the utility by Bill Manville who commented below. Thank you Bill.

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  11. Find and replace in selected cells - not Within workbook

    3 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Editing  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  12. Add a step or staircase chart to Type Of Charts

    9 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Charting, Mapping and Visualizations  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    Step charts are useful to display
    - changes in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy
    - snowfalls overnight
    - ...

    On step charts workarounds, see
    - Michel Gerday's post at http://www.excelforum.com/excel-charting-and-pivots/513287-dynamic-step-chart-using-range-names.html
    - https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/dynamic-step-chart-using-range-names.2397135/ (same as above)
    - Jon Peltier's HowTo at https://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsHowTo/StepChart.html
    - Minda Treacy's post at https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-step-charts
    - Michel Gerday's further comment at https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-step-charts#comment-19997

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  13. Search text with option for accentuated letters

    1 vote
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    1 comment  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formulas and Functions  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    Well, I meant ... accented letters.

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  14. Allow >31 characters in a sheet name

    17 votes
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    11 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Other  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  15. Remove the 255 character limit in Excel object model functions

    26 votes
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    3 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Macros and Add-ins  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  16. Restore MDI file handling (open all files in one window); Kill SDI (each spreadsheet opens in a seperate window)

    1,007 votes
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    848 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Viewing / Navigating Workbooks  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Accepting Votes  ·  AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded

    Thanks for all of the votes – the team has definitely taken notice of the activity around this issue. We moved to SDI as a result of customer requests, but it looks like we’ve got work to do to really nail the use cases people care about. From a read over the comments, I see a number of cases that we will want to investigate further as we think through MDI vs SDI. We’ll get someone from the team to take a deeper look, and we may reach out to some of you for more clarification as we go. Thanks again for all the voting and passion here!

    John, Excel

    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    Please don't shout !

  17. Change the order of calculation from "left to right" to "right to left"

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    0 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Performance  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  18. Add ability to collapse field areas in PivotTable Field and Area Side by Side view

    421 votes
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    9 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » PivotTables and Power Pivot  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Accepting Votes  ·  Ashvini Sharma (Lead Program Manager, Microsoft) responded

    Hi Ken,

    Thanks for logging this one, and thanks to others for voting this up.. We’ve actually had this on our list to get to for some time and have been balancing doing this against other… The more the community helps us rank it higher, the better the signal on overall importance… so, for those that haven’t voted for this but want it, do vote!

    thanks
    ash [MS XL]

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  19. Enable user to pin Folders to the recent lists for Open and Save As

    429 votes
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    48 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Opening and Saving Files  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Gerdami Des Betes commented  · 

    How can Microsoft be so stupid by removing recent and pinned folders ?
    :-(

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  20. Put the color back in the Quick Access icons. The 2016 icon are impossible to decipher.

    174 votes
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    140 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Viewing / Navigating Workbooks  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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