• jj4211@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I suppose the idea would be like AVG, but for free form text comment cells. Can’t really chart that.

      Of course it would be non deterministic left as a “formula”, so it’s still a bad idea to encode that way, but guess they could have a “summarize this column” feature and then the user does as they will with the result.

      Though having comments in a column in a spreadsheet has always seemed like a weird format choice.

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      3 days ago

      Kind of - it’s the step that makes the data uniform and (nominally) useful so it can then be aggregated and reported on.