Open bolleywall opened 3 years ago
I have the same issue and this is really a Major issue that should be very clearly be reported on the main page of the package. Anyone like me trying to use the package in a real work environment is going to be severely impacted by this and I am honestly shocked that this is not the case. Thankfully I saved a copy of my excel before experimenting with XLSX but it is then only by luck than I discovered this issue. Sorry for the harsh tone, but this is not "a bug"... this is a major issue and you need to make it very clear to potential users.
@aleave thanks for the input! I wrote a warning in the docs about it.
Any prevision on when this issue will be solved? Thanks for this work
It is most likely that this feature will be removed in a future release.
Even if the formulas are still shown in the Excel file, sometimes I cannot get them to evaluate with the new numbers. I tried hitting Enter, Calculate Now, Calculate Sheet, and Refresh All, but the formula cells still show old values.
It is most likely that this feature will be removed in a future release.
Does this mean in future release, one will not able to write to an xlsx file using XLSX.jl?
It is most likely that this feature will be removed in a future release.
Does this mean in future release, one will not able to write to an xlsx file using XLSX.jl?
What I meant is that the edit feature may be removed, which relates to opening an existing file and write to it using the flag mode="rw"
. Writing from a blank spreadsheet with mode="w"
is a feature that will not be removed.
So formulas are lost and in their place static values remain.
How to recreate:
=SECOND(NOW())
in each cell in A1:T20, save to Formulas.xlsx, close Excelusing XLSX; XLSX.openxlsx("Formulas.xlsx", mode="rw") do xf; end