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<blockquote data-quote="warderbrad" data-source="post: 4284639" data-attributes="member: 15269">I have heard that Excel for mac is as buggy when it comes to involved workbooks.&nbsp; I do not have a mac available to me to test it, I know that these things do work the way they should on a PC.&nbsp; It could be a function that is not in the excel for mac or something but without the hardware and such to test I cannot say.&nbsp;I know from working on the Heroforge project for 3.0 and 3.5 custom data entry or customizing data is one thing that everyone loves, and it would be nice to have it be easier.&nbsp; However it is a bigger job than most realize.&nbsp; It was given up on the Heroforge project (other than a custom race tab and a custom class tab which would let you make one custom race and one custom class), the real problem is that it is rarely just data but also formulas that have to change and as such it is more involved than a simple app.&nbsp; This seems to be even more true with the concept for 4.0 in that everything is exception based so that means that all formulas have to be if option a is chosen then do this otherwise to that.&nbsp; Being able to rename may not be so bad (other than some formulas which look for the name of the feat would not work right) but putting in custom data could be very tricky.&nbsp; I wish you the best of luck in trying to build something like that, I know professional excel programmers gave up on it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="warderbrad, post: 4284639, member: 15269"] I have heard that Excel for mac is as buggy when it comes to involved workbooks. I do not have a mac available to me to test it, I know that these things do work the way they should on a PC. It could be a function that is not in the excel for mac or something but without the hardware and such to test I cannot say. I know from working on the Heroforge project for 3.0 and 3.5 custom data entry or customizing data is one thing that everyone loves, and it would be nice to have it be easier. However it is a bigger job than most realize. It was given up on the Heroforge project (other than a custom race tab and a custom class tab which would let you make one custom race and one custom class), the real problem is that it is rarely just data but also formulas that have to change and as such it is more involved than a simple app. This seems to be even more true with the concept for 4.0 in that everything is exception based so that means that all formulas have to be if option a is chosen then do this otherwise to that. Being able to rename may not be so bad (other than some formulas which look for the name of the feat would not work right) but putting in custom data could be very tricky. I wish you the best of luck in trying to build something like that, I know professional excel programmers gave up on it. [/QUOTE]

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