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Silver Contributor

Mar 07, 2018

Excel Formulas Copyrights

Hi Experts, What do you feel about the formula you wrote, and perhaps you struggled while writing it to make it work, what do you feel when you see someone copying and pasting it somewhere else...

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SergeiBaklan

Diamond Contributor

Mar 07, 2018

Hi Haytham,

I thing it's nothing to do with that. As soon as you publish your formula it becomes the kind of Open Source, but without any license.

Another story that's a good practice to give a reference if you republish something new or unique. If no such, that's only to remind community what is the source.

Willy Lau
Iron Contributor
Mar 08, 2018
Hi SergeiBaklan, sometimes I answer members' question, I do not refer to your posts, even tough I learnt the solutions from your posts. Sorry for that.

Edition:

e.g.

techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Formulas-and-Functions/Nested-IF/m-p/153161#M3311

I turned the compaison result as a part of calculation. It is the ~~idea~~ solution which I learnt from your post https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Excel/nested-quot-IF-quot-with-quot-AND-quot-and-quot-IF-quot-with/m-p/150964#M3786
- SergeiBaklan
  Diamond Contributor
  Mar 09, 2018
  Hi Willy Lau, I didn't mean to make the reference on every formula we suggest here. I guess 99% of them are well known, at least for experts, and explained in this or that form in dozens of publications. That's only for something really new and unique.