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Creating a general SO MCVE question is described here and more specifically for R and Python's Pandas (as examples), but creating a MCVE doesn't seem as straightforward with Excel.

Frequently an Excel tagged question's examples are just a screenshot of a table and/or the formula bar, and repliciting a question or answer can be challenging and frustrating. Reproducable questions are more likely to get answers and are more useful to people that find them later.

How does one create a great, reproducible example for an Excel question? Is it possible to create a minimal Excel table/dataset in a SO question? How should formulas or chains of instructions be written? What could be encouraged and what should be discouraged?

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    This would be a great question on the Meta site, but it doesn't fit here, because you're not asking an Excel question, but rather a question about to how to ask an Excel question. Voting to migrate. – Tim Biegeleisen Aug 03 '18 at 11:36
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    Sure, but I asked here simply because both the R and Pandas examples cited were well received on SO, and the hope (maybe mistaken) that if answered, someone asking a future question and needing help with it is more likely to find in on SO rather than Meta. – sbha Aug 03 '18 at 11:46
  • This is a discussion post that belongs on [meta], as Tim has pointed out. Your justification isn't really relevant; the question belongs on the other site, because it isn't a programming related question as defined in the site guidelines, and [meta] was specifically established for the purpose of hosting discussion based questions regarding the site. Future readers can be provided a link to the relevant [meta] post. – Ken White Aug 03 '18 at 12:35
  • Using a [Markdown Tables Generator](http://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables) is one good way of providing the data for an example. – Ron Rosenfeld Aug 03 '18 at 13:41

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