Does not work in non-english version of Excel

[ianand]

from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39701801

brnt 13 hours ago | parent | next [–] I'm not a big Excel user, but I see errors that I get when I type in English function names while using a non-English version of Excel. Is it correct that functions (and thus this xlsb file) are not portable to other language versions of Excel? reply

c-linkage 7 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] It's been my experience that Excel spreadsheets are not transferable from one locale to another. Maybe there is a "culture-invariant" version of a spreadsheet but I haven't found it. reply