A name whose references have no $ was evaluated as if they were
absolute. In Excel such references are relative: defined from B2,
=Sheet1!A2 means "the cell to the left", and the file stores it
relative to A1 (Sheet1!XFD1, wrapping around the sheet's edge).
Name formulas with relative references are now moved by the using
cell's offset from A1, wrapping at the edges, and formulas.defineName
takes relative references as relative to the active cell, as Excel's
Name Manager does, and stores them relative to A1.
The file format has no `@` operator, but formulas with an explicit
implicit intersection were written with a literal `@`
(`<f>@A1:A3*2</f>`). Excel writes `@x` as `_xlfn.SINGLE(x)`, which only
dynamic-array formulas carry. The writer now does the same and marks such
formulas cm="1"; the parser reads `SINGLE(x)` back as `@x`, as it already
does for `ANCHORARRAY` and `#`.
Two cases in the #83 metadata test expected a redundant `@` (`SQRT(@A1:A3)`,
`@A1:A3*2`) to be written as an ordinary formula. Dropping the `@` there is
only lossless if the reader puts it back on legacy formulas, which it
doesn't yet (the read side of #64), so they now expect cm.
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English (and languages without a formula table) now shows stored formula
text verbatim instead of re-parsing it every frame; localized entry no longer
trims leading spaces before formula detection (" =1" stays text, as in the
engine). Adds a display round-trip test for string literals containing
separators, decimal commas and the intersection operator.
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formula::parse("Sheet1!$D$1#") failed with "unknown error literal".
A # right after a cell reference is now the spill range operator: it
evaluates to the anchor's current spill range, or #REF! when the cell
doesn't spill (or its spill is blocked). Its users depend on the
anchor, so they recalculate when the spill grows or shrinks. Names can
use it.
Files have no # operator: like Excel, the writer stores A1# as
_xlfn.ANCHORARRAY(A1), and the parser reads that back as A1#.
Delete Cells built the references' edit and then discarded it, so
references into the deleted cells didn't become #REF!, and Insert Cells
treated the shift as a move of everything below, so =SUM(A1:A5) didn't
grow to A1:A6 when A3 was inserted.
Two new structural edits, InsertCells and DeleteCells, adjust a
reference like inserting/deleting rows (columns) when it lies within the
shifted columns (rows), and leave it as it is otherwise, as Excel does.
Formulas, defined names, chart series, conditional-format, validation,
table and print-area ranges, notes, links and sparklines follow.
- ui-egui: title bar with QAT, full ribbon (Home/Insert/Draw/Page Layout/Formulas/Data/
Review/View/Automate + Table/Chart Design), formula bar with Name Box, virtualised grid
(frozen panes, overflow, borders, CF data bars/scales/icons, tables, sparklines, filter
buttons, charts/pictures/shapes), in-cell editor with point mode, reference colouring,
autocomplete and argument hints, sheet tabs, status bar, dialogs, control channel
- apps/sheetcraft: desktop app (control server, file dialogs, prefs, drag & drop)
- chart: toolkit-free chart layout/rendering for 25 chart kinds + sparklines + rasteriser
- mcp + sheetcraft-cli: MCP server (headless or bridged) and CLI (info/convert/eval/cat/run/mcp)
- xtask (ci/layers/assets/wasm/version/parity), release workflows, packaging, placeholder icon
- automatic row heights
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