most citedExcelsior: Bringing the Benefits of Modularisation to Excel

8 citations · 25 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SE20081 cited

Spreadsheet Components For All

Jocelyn Paine

We have prototyped a "spreadsheet component repository" Web site, from which users can copy "components" into their own Excel or Google spreadsheets. Components are collections of…

cs.SE20088 cited

Excelsior: Bringing the Benefits of Modularisation to Excel

Jocelyn Paine

Excel lacks features for modular design. Had it such features, as do most programming languages, they would save time, avoid unneeded programming, make mistakes less likely, make c…

cs.SE20086 cited

Rapid Spreadsheet Reshaping with Excelsior: multiple drastic changes to content and layout are easy when you represent enough structure

Jocelyn Paine, Emre Tek, Duncan Williamson

Spreadsheets often need changing in ways made tedious and risky by Excel. For example: simultaneously altering many tables' size, orientation, and position; inserting cross-tabulat…

cs.SE20088 cited

Spreadsheet Structure Discovery with Logic Programming

Jocelyn Paine

Our term "structure discovery" denotes the recovery of structure, such as the grouping of cells, that was intended by a spreadsheet's author but is not explicit in the spreadsheet.…

cs.HC20082 cited

It Ain't What You View, But The Way That You View It: documenting spreadsheets with Excelsior, semantic wikis, and literate programming

Jocelyn Paine

I describe preliminary experiments in documenting Excelsior versions of spreadsheets using semantic wikis and literate programming. The objective is to create well-structured and c…

cs.HC2008

Fun Boy Three Were Wrong: it is what you do, not the way that you do it

Jocelyn Paine

I revisit some classic publications on modularity, to show what problems its pioneers wanted to solve. These problems occur with spreadsheets too: to recognise them may help us avo…