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Why not use LibreOffice Calc instead? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Libreoffice calc sucks sorry. Onlyoffice might be a good substitute.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sadly, Excel is still the gold standard. There are plenty of competing options for creating basic spreadsheets but once you start trying to do any sort of complex data analysis, the capabilities gap starts to widen very quickly.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I kinda curious since I've been using it for my meager spreadsheet use for over ten years.

    What sucks about it to you?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It feels like a less useful Office 97 variant.

    With modern UI/UX, it’s just clunky and old. Like, Google spreadsheets is works… better. Some things that I do in excel can’t really transfer over that easily (don’t have any examples off the top of my head sorry)

    The PowerPoint variant is the WORST offense though.

    It’s like having to maintain two different skillsets that are 85% similar.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So is it just the UI or the actual functionality? I know the deep deep functionality probably isn't there but I want to know how deep you have to go.

    You can also change the UI to have the ribbon. It doesn't do it by default because I think they're worried about legality.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Both.

    If I get deep enough, there are excel functions that are missing. On a surface level, UI.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Okay. I solved that by not using office at all.

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