Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
271 points by luispa 18 days ago | 192 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • ↑Feature is genuinely useful with practical real-world applications like parsing comma-separated data
  • ~This is a fundamental technical shift for Excel but practical benefits may be overstated
  • ↓Feature adds unnecessary complexity to Excel's mental model without justified benefits
  • •Excel would benefit more from other features like probability distributions in cells
  • •This concept isn't new — older systems like Pick OS already had multi-value fields