Workbooks And Word Files Now Fill Like The File You Sent

August 27, 2026

Save a branded model or a client Word pack once. Ask for the next quarter or the next name. Alfrada OS fills that file — live formulas, leftover placeholders reported, layout checked — instead of rebuilding a generic workbook or a fresh report.

What you can do

• Excel formulas stay live. Numeric strings become numbers. Strings that start with = become real Excel formulas. A bare call to a known function — MAX(0,MIN(100,B5*2)) — is rescued as a formula so the cells that reference it do not cascade #VALUE!. Identifiers with a leading zero, such as 007, stay text.
• Fill a saved workbook template. If you have stored an .xlsx under Settings → Templates, Alfrada OS inspects that exact templates/<file>.xlsx first. Inspect copies it into the session out/ folder (the stored template is never edited), returns the , cell refs, and style facts, and attaches a visual read of the rendered sheets. Tokens are filled with find-and-replace. Anything still showing is reported before delivery.
• A check when layout can break. After a template fill or a dense sheet, a visual check renders the workbook and flags clipped columns (####), text spilling into neighbours, overlaps, leftover tokens, and garbled codes. It is slow on purpose — skip it on a simple data dump. If LibreOffice or the vision model is missing, the layout pass says unavailable and a text scan for leftover still runs.
• Columns that fit, images that survive. Ask to auto-fit columns after a long write (widths 8–60 characters; longer text wraps instead of covering the next cell). Embed a session image or logo; webp and TIFF convert to PNG; unsized images cap at 960×720; the picture stays after later edits.
• Presets when no template matches. Questionnaire, comparison matrix, tracker, financial model, KPI dashboard, and executive report still build a styled workbook from scratch — with the same live-formula write path.
• Word packs the same way. Inspect a saved templates/<file>.docx to seed a working copy, read every (body, tables, headers, footers), fill with Doc Patch, then visual-check for overflow, leftover tokens, and broken images. Authoring a new .docx from sections can embed a session image (aspect preserved, capped to the 6.5in page body; a missing file is reported without sinking the document).

Where this shows up

You asked for a vendor scorecard and the Weighted and Verdict columns all said #VALUE!. The model had written MAX(...) as text. Those cells are formulas now, so changing a weight in Excel updates the ranking.

You already saved last year's branded financial model as a template. You used to get a generic preset with navy headers and none of your furniture. Now you say "use our model for Meridian" and the working copy is that file, tokens filled, styles left alone.

You have a client Word pack with and in the header and the fee table. You used to rebuild it as a new report and lose the letterhead. Now you inspect the saved template, fill the tokens, and get a visual check before it goes out.

Try it

• "Build a vendor comparison workbook for Acme, Bolt, and Corvid — security, pricing, support — weighted scores that recalculate when I change the weights in Excel."
• "Use our saved financial-model template. Fill it for Meridian Logistics with these assumptions, don't restyle the sheets, and check the layout before you hand it over."
• "I saved agreement.docx as a template. Fill every leftover placeholder for Ooredoo, keep the letterhead, and tell me if any placeholder is still showing."

Heads up

A workbook that already shipped with formulas stored as text will not heal itself — only new writes are coerced. Auto-fit is a follow-up action after the content is in, not an invisible default on every cell. Visual check is for template fills and layout-risky sheets, not every two-column dump.

The June note Edit Uploaded Word Documents In Place is the original Doc Patch launch. The 26 August note Uploaded Decks And PDFs Now Patch Like The File You Sent is the deck and PDF sibling. This note is Excel and Word catching up to that contract.