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Oh a plug-in, ha, for some reason I read the title and thought this was a 'just to show I can' type implementation of all those things actually in Excel, 'Doom in Excel' sort of thing.

This seems far more useful!

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I also thought this was going to be an article about implementing a C# compiler in excel! This on the other hand seems like a very neat product.

Thanks! Yeah, I probably should have made the title "...in Excel" instead of "...inside Excel". I wonder if more or fewer people would have clicked on it that way.

If we're being pedantic maybe "for Excel" would be clearer? But what do I know.

That would be my choice too. Both "inside" and "in" imply "in the spreadsheet". "For", on the other hand I would understand as "for the Excel program".

I was considering "for" but I wanted to imply that the IDE is actually located inside Excel, rather than being a separate program.

"working inside"?

Yeah, I thought you crafted some Excel monstrosity based on the title. Maybe a mod can change the title for you to say "for Excel."

Also, I would be super proud if I'd created this. Excellent work!!!

I would have been both immensely impressed and immensely horrified if that were the case.

I had the same thought lol. Honestly, the fact that such a thing seems possible at all should be props to the people who built Excel

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