Excel should have a "pretty print" fonction for formulas.

[yann tisserand]

My Texas Instrument calculator has a "pretty print" function that allows to
see the formulas as if they were hand-written. It avoids a lot of errors in
formulas. Excel must include this function.

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[Don Guillett]

But, of course. And in colors too. Polka dot would be nice.

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"yann tisserand" <yann [email protected]> wrote in message
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> My Texas Instrument calculator has a "pretty print" function that allows
> to
> see the formulas as if they were hand-written. It avoids a lot of errors
> in
> formulas. Excel must include this function.
>
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[Mark Lincoln]

And in whose handwriting?

Don Guillett wrote:
> But, of course. And in colors too. Polka dot would be nice.
>
> --
> Don Guillett
> SalesAid Software
> [email protected]
> "yann tisserand" <yann [email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > My Texas Instrument calculator has a "pretty print" function that allows
> > to
> > see the formulas as if they were hand-written. It avoids a lot of errors
> > in
> > formulas. Excel must include this function.
> >
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> > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> > this
> > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> > click "I Agree" in the message pane.
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[lostinformulas]

I don't know if you would consider it pretty print however excel 2003 does have a function that allow you to see the formulas in a spreadsheet.

Tools drop down menu
Formula Audit
Formula Audit Mode.

Hope this helps

[JLatham]

You wouldn't want to see your formulas in MY handwriting! LOL.

But if you really want to see things similar to handwriting, try choosing
all cells (click on the blank cell to the left of the A column indicator and
above the 1 row indicator and then choose one of the script font sets.

Problems usually take place when you choose a font with numerous similarly
displayed dissimilar characters, 1 and l (lowercase ell) in Times New Roman,
for example. The look different here in Arial. O and 0 is another
combination - although the O is usually noticeably more rounded than the zero
is. Choose your font set carefully, type cautiously, be prepared for the
computer to let some human induced errors through anyhow. This is the whole
reason the invented debugging - to deal with the human side of computers.



"yann tisserand" wrote:

> My Texas Instrument calculator has a "pretty print" function that allows to
> see the formulas as if they were hand-written. It avoids a lot of errors in
> formulas. Excel must include this function.
>
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> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc

[Pflugs]

I think yann's referring not to how someone's handwriting would make the
equation look, but instead how the equation would look if written
symbolically. In that case, I emphatically agree with him.

"yann tisserand" wrote:

> My Texas Instrument calculator has a "pretty print" function that allows to
> see the formulas as if they were hand-written. It avoids a lot of errors in
> formulas. Excel must include this function.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc