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#146 Do Spreadsheets Need a Rethink? With Hjalmar Gislason, CEO of GRID

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How to Write a Formula That Does X

We are always looking for opportunities to make working with numbers less intimidating and do that by making visualization super easy. And one of the things that especially people that aren't already advanced spreadsheet users struggle with is writing formulas. We decided kind of the first step we decided to take was to help this user by integrating formula systems into grid. Instead of writing we actually say kind of slash slash is the new equals. So you can start the formula by typing in slash slash or hitting the formula assistant button and then you just type in natural language what you want your formula to do. It will come back with a suggested formula in the right syntax and so on. I think it's really a fantastic addition to

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