Would It be possible at some point to have a version for Office Excel for Mac? :-)

plasma-umass / DataDebug

Excel 2010/2013 add-in that automatically finds errors in spreadsheets

http://checkcell.org

GNU General Public License v2.0

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Would It be possible at some point to have a version for Office Excel for Mac? :-) #62

Open abetancort opened 10 years ago

dbarowy commented 10 years ago

tl;dr: sorry, no.

As far as I am aware, the only way to write Office plugins for the Mac is via AppleScript-- the API that we used for CheckCell simply does not exist on that platform. So CheckCell for the Mac would necessitate a complete rewrite in AppleScript, which is something I'm not particularly eager to do. I will happily provide guidance to anybody who wants to try this themselves. I'm mostly a Mac user myself, so I would love to have such a plugin.

emeryberger commented 10 years ago

According to what I have read, Excel add-ins for Mac (since Office 2011) can be written in VBA. Not sure if this helps us; it might be possible to have a VBA front-end that calls out to the F# functionality (via Mono). In any event, it doesn't look like it would need a full re-write at all.