Spreadsheet Composer
v2.0Spreadsheet Composer is an Excel add-in, which provides facilities to automatically construct, verify, catalogue, manage and implement complex worksheet formulae.
Description
Spreadsheet Composer is an Excel add-in, which offers significant productivity and development benefits. The core capability of the add-in is the 'compose' function.
With this function it is possible to define a spreadsheet calculation as a series of linked steps and then automatically 'compose' the calculation into a single complex formula. Spreadsheet Composer is a very powerful tool that enables the user to attain a level of functionality and error trapping that was previously difficult to achieve in a manageable spreadsheet.
The add-in provides a number of support features to facilitate the use and management of composed formulae. It provides a database for the storage; documentation and retrieval of formulae and a 'matching' function that can link an implemented formula back to its database description.
The retrieval function allows the user to copy a formula from the database into a selected spreadsheet cell, to automatically select input cells for the formula and to specify a mix of relative and absolute addressing for the selected cells. The add-in permits complete verification of a formula before it is stored within the database.
The formula can be verified against its original definition and against its intended behaviour. If a formula gives an unintended output for a particular combination of inputs, then additional error trapping can be factored into the composed formula.
The add-in provides an 'export' function, which allows a completed spreadsheet to be written out to a standalone workbook for independent operation. Further details of Spreadsheet Composer are provided within the download.
It includes an extensive description document incorporating numerous screen-shots.
With this function it is possible to define a spreadsheet calculation as a series of linked steps and then automatically 'compose' the calculation into a single complex formula. Spreadsheet Composer is a very powerful tool that enables the user to attain a level of functionality and error trapping that was previously difficult to achieve in a manageable spreadsheet.
The add-in provides a number of support features to facilitate the use and management of composed formulae. It provides a database for the storage; documentation and retrieval of formulae and a 'matching' function that can link an implemented formula back to its database description.
The retrieval function allows the user to copy a formula from the database into a selected spreadsheet cell, to automatically select input cells for the formula and to specify a mix of relative and absolute addressing for the selected cells. The add-in permits complete verification of a formula before it is stored within the database.
The formula can be verified against its original definition and against its intended behaviour. If a formula gives an unintended output for a particular combination of inputs, then additional error trapping can be factored into the composed formula.
The add-in provides an 'export' function, which allows a completed spreadsheet to be written out to a standalone workbook for independent operation. Further details of Spreadsheet Composer are provided within the download.
It includes an extensive description document incorporating numerous screen-shots.
