Formulas are hard to inspect and reuse
Users cannot read a formula as text, find cell references in rules, or reuse existing formulas inside custom functions.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 6 May 2011 · last reported 23 January 2025
What's going wrong
Spreadsheet builders want to read the formula inside a cell instead of its value, to find every conditional formatting rule that uses a given cell, and to write custom script functions that call the built-in formulas.
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