Does not work in non-english version of Excel

[ianand]

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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

[BasPaap]

I can confirm this: I you need to install the English language pack and set the Office interface language to US English for the spreadsheet to work. I had it in Dutch before and it wouldn't work, now that I switched the UI language it does work. Apparently there's no other way right now.

[ianand]

Just a heads up there is now a web based version of Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need that is worth trying out if you have issues with the spreadsheet running in your version of Excel. The link for it is: https://spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai/gpt2/