My XLSX converter taught me that a merged cell isn't a cell — it's a lie Excel tells
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Spent three days debugging a spreadsheet pipeline where totals were coming back missing. Not blank — missing from my JSON array entirely . My XLSX-to-Markdown API was reading cells row by row, turning each sheet into a Markdown table plus a JSON array of row objects, and for the finance team's mont…
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- 2026-10-14 07:04 · DEV Community — AI
My XLSX converter taught me that a merged cell isn't a cell — it's a lie Excel tells