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Spreadsheet Components, Google Spreadsheets, and Code Reuse
I've finished a demo I'm really pleased with, an experiment in reusable spreadsheet components for Google Spreadsheets, and I can't resist blogging it. Spreadsheets, to borrow a metaphor from Douglas Adams, do code reuse in the same way that bricks hang in the sky. I want to give bricks wings, by providing spreadsheet components you can insert to calculate things you'd find hard to program. Eventually, I'd like to start a library of such components; and, if I can get funding, to make it free. I'll demonstrate with a text-searching component, showing how to slot it into different shaped places in different Google Spreadsheets as if it were a chart. You can try this yourself on this Web form, explained below. Getting straight to the point, three screenshots of the demo are shown below.Related Reading
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