Formatting rules

[Nicholas Lamb <njl ecs soton ac uk>]

The poor state of Excel's conditional formatting has been discussed more
than once on this list, and apparently the Office 12 Excel team intend to
fix this.

http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/

Maybe (I'm not familiar with this code) there is useful material there for
Gnumeric, in terms of ideas and structures rather than UI, and at the very
least it's a checklist - Office 12 will be exporting files which use all
the conditional described, and it would be nice for Gnumeric to import them.

Also, they earlier mentioned that the row & column limits have been very
seriously increased in Office 12, so it will be interesting to see how (if
at all) they handle import and export for that.

Nick.