shuppy (@delan) — [archived]

no one ever told me excel 2000 add-ins were just excel spreadsheets with dipping mustards (.xla)?

an excel spreadsheet with small square cells and gridlines on, containing buttons and input fields for a Template Wizard - Step 3 of 5 an excel spreadsheet with small square cells, containing buttons and input fields for a Template Wizard - Step 1 of 5, with a path field that reads “C:\MSOffice\Templates\It's a 'test” an excel spreadsheet with small square cells, containing buttons and input fields for a Template Wizard - Step 2 of 5, with a path field that reads “C:\work\xl96\wizard\It's a 'test Database” an excel spreadsheet with small square cells, containing buttons and input fields for a Template Wizard - Step 5 of 5, and a very 90s graphic of a waving checkered finishing flag

@bark and i were tryna figure out how formulas worked under the hood, when we found some strange xla files on the install cd.

we couldn’t figure out how to edit them in excel — opening them in excel would just do nothing — but we were able to open them in libreoffice calc, and, well.