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Show HN: Frockly – A visual editor for understanding complex Excel formulas

51 points by jack_ruru

by jimnotgym

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I use Excel a lot, and run a team that use it more. One of biggest tips I give is to not write complex formulae if you can help it. Split it into more cells, so it goes step by step. It looks less cool, but when you have to edit it in 6 months you will thank me.
It is not always possible, of course. But it normally is. For the edge cases a helper like this must be nice. Maybe some fields have lots of edge cases, mine has few.

by leobg

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Thanks for sharing.
I often have this problem in Google Sheets. So far, i’ve resorted to copying the formula into Sublime Text and then splitting it into multiple lines. Your editor looks much more intuitive.
As demo, it would be nice if one could press a button to load some real data abd formulas. I’m reading HN on my phone. I guess many people do. Coming up with a formula and example data is an extra hurdle, and doing it using just a thumb and dumb autocorrect doubly so.
I did see the screenshots on GitHub. Thumbs up for those!

by remark5396

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This made me wonder, why there is no syntax highlighting support for Excel? I've never thought about that before.

by gabrielsroka

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The animated gifs on your readme are completely useless. They change way too fast to read and there's no way to pause it.
Either make it a video so you can pause it or just have static screenshots without animation.

by SuperNinKenDo

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I'm one of those sick, sad puppies that enjoys Excel shenanigans. Haven't been able to trst it out since I'm on my phone, but screenshots look promising, I look forward to trying it out.