Feature Request: 3D Data/Formatting

[ramz]

Is it just me, or would anyone else find it enormously helpful if
Excel supported layers within sheets where you could overlay cell
borders, colors, etc. in line with the underlying data cells? 3D data
would be less helpful to me, but it seemed like it could be of some
benefit to someone out there and would contribute to a broader
"standard" implementation of the idea of layering.

A use case of this might be having a table with data with all the
column widths, etc. set for appropriate presentation, then overlaying
translucent coloring and cell borders over that. The layer could
support conditional formatting capabilities currently available in
Excel 2007.

Just an idea. Thoughts?

 

[ramz]

I forgot to mention that this would be a great way to identify
intersections of data with multiple translucent layers over data (red
vertical, blue horizontal, purple cell).