Millions of computer end users need to perform tasks over large spreadsheet data, yet lack the programming knowledge to do such tasks automatically. We present a methodology that allows end users to automate such repetitive tasks.
advertisement
Home → Magazine Archive → August 2012 (Vol. 55, No. 8) → Spreadsheet Data Manipulation Using Examples → Abstract
Spreadsheet Data Manipulation Using Examples
By Sumit Gulwani, William R. Harris, Rishabh Singh
Communications of the ACM,
Vol. 55 No. 8, Pages 97-105
10.1145/2240236.2240260
![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0000/8603/071912_iStock_Spreadsheet-Data1.large.jpg?1476779428&1342728582 "laptop computer user")
1 Comments
Displaying 1 comment
Log in to Read the Full Article
Purchase the Article
Anonymous
The technology described in Section 3 of this article (namely, syntactic string transformations) will ship as part of the Flash Fill feature in Excel 2013.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/flashfill.html