Documenting Excel - A Beginner's Project

By John Davies from London.pm
Date: Saturday, 5 December 2009 10:50
Duration: 20 minutes
Language:
Tags: beginner documentation excel pod

You can find more information on the speaker's site:

• Talk: http://www.jdavies.adsl24.co.uk/ExcelPODTalk.htm

Documenting spreadsheets presents unusual problems. The talk will identify why spreadsheet documentation is generally so poor and how this can be changed. In under 400 lines of Perl, a tool has been written to extract POD from within spreadsheets. The talk will describe why this approach was chosen and what difficulties - in Excel, Perl and POD - were encountered and how they were overcome by a beginner. The talk will not try to teach POD.