Thursday, July 11, 2013

Excel and functionnames

While working with the Swedish edition of Excel we are constantly punished by having translated functionnames that is quite pointless. Finding the right one is like a needle in the haystack since they are probably translated by a non-Swede or just of the dictionary or something. Anyway I needed a substring and  the function is mid in Excel and after a bit of searching I found this resource: http://www.piuha.fi/excel-function-name-translation/index.php?page=svenska-english.html

It's just what I needed! I just wonder who thought up the "great" idea of translating functionnames! At least they could allow us to use the English version side by side. As a developer I can't see that would be too hard to implement... Anyway, back to work!

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