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Increase size of Evaluate Formula Dialog Box
The Dialog box should be resizeable - it a must for long formulas.
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Such feedbacks better to publish on feedback portal Excel · Community (microsoft.com) , Microsoft monitors it.
This particular request exists for years. Microsoft makes dialog boxes resizable one by one, but formula evaluate is still postponed. You may add your vote here
Make the Evaluate Formula dialog bigger · Community (microsoft.com)
More votes - more chances it'll be done faster.
Might I offer a suggestion? From the looks of that formula, just the small part that appears in your screen capture, it could be a case study in the kind of formula that can be written, but should NOT be. The textbooks on Excel all warn against llllloooonnnnngggg formulas because they become unintelligible, even to their original creator, and therefore more error prone and difficult to maintain even if they work when first created.
You'd be far better served by breaking this into several steps, doing the internal evaluations (formulas) with clear results at each stage along the way, maybe hiding the columns (or rows) containing the intermediate "helper" formulas. Rare is the case where that's not possible, and it makes for much greater clarity.
Hi mathetes, thanks for suggestion. I have tried breaking this into several steps using the intermediate "helper" formulas, but the current small sized "Evaluate Formula" dialogue box still doesn't prove to be very easy to use.
Aside, having nothing to do with the size of the Evaluate Formula dialog box....
Instead of the form
IFNA(IFS(condition1, result1, ..., conditionN, resultN), defaultResult)
it would be better to write
IFS(condition1, result1, ..., conditionN, resultN, TRUE, defaultResult)
or
IFS(condition1, result1, ..., TRUE, resultN)
Use the latter form only if resultN is the intended defaultResult.
The point is: it is "good practice" to have a TRUE condition/result pair at the end of IFS expressions to avoid an unintended #N/A error, just as it is "good practice" to have a value-if-false expression at the end of IF expressions to avoid an unintended FALSE result.
