Suggestion for DR 17-0029

[Charlie Clark]

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure if I will be able to make today's meeting and I won't be  
coming to the face-to-face in June because it overlaps with SWMBO's plans.

Here my delayed update on the question:

Within source XML cell references which characters must be quoted or  
require quoting of the worksheet name. Is the current definition  
sufficient? Are there other object names where this applies? Ideally it  
would be possible to provide a regex for testing this and I would be happy  
to contribute to this.

Also interoperability would it be possible for Microsoft to provide a list  
of reserved names that should be avoided for worksheets, defined names,  
tables, etc. This could be extended by other vendors as required.

The example originally provided that caused problems in Excel 2016 seems  
to have been resolved, but not necessarily for other versions. I cannot  
find a reference to this in any of the release notes such as

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/release-notes-for-office-2016-for-mac-ed2da564-6d53-4542-9954-7e3209681a41?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#bkmk_nov2017

It would be very useful if Microsoft could identify which version contains  
the fix. This is not a request for any internal or privileged information  
but would be useful to point users to. It would also document the  
important work of the working group and Microsoft's commitment to it.

Charlie
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