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My XLSX converter learned that merged cells are a rumor, not a fact

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I shipped a spreadsheet-to-Markdown API expecting the easy part to be tables. Cells are cells, right? Then a user fed it a sales workbook and the output had three identical rows where one should be. The culprit was merged cells. In Excel, when you merge A1:C1 for a section header, the value lives i…

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  1. 2026-10-23 03:04 · DEV Community — AI
    My XLSX converter learned that merged cells are a rumor, not a fact

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