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Re: Show HN: A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets

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Post by julianz »

selfportrait wrote: post #9
keiran01 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a horrific product for anyone who actually has to use a spreadsheet for work. The developers seem pre-occupied with building strange bells and whistles while ceding power user functionality to Excel. Using Excel vs. Google Sheets saves me easily 20 hours a week.

What is missing in Sheets that would save you 20 hours a week vs. Excel? Genuinely curious to hear real world examples from a power user, because in the worst case scenario I use JS/G Apps Script to automate analysis/organization, which is actually a preference for me if I can't do it easily enough with a formula. I also can't stand Excel UI

If you name a cell in Excel, then use it in a formula by clicking on the cell, Excel will use the name in the formula. Sheets won't, which misses the whole point of naming cells.

Re: Show HN: A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets

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Post by remus »

selfportrait wrote: post #9
keiran01 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a horrific product for anyone who actually has to use a spreadsheet for work. The developers seem pre-occupied with building strange bells and whistles while ceding power user functionality to Excel. Using Excel vs. Google Sheets saves me easily 20 hours a week.

What is missing in Sheets that would save you 20 hours a week vs. Excel? Genuinely curious to hear real world examples from a power user, because in the worst case scenario I use JS/G Apps Script to automate analysis/organization, which is actually a preference for me if I can't do it easily enough with a formula. I also can't stand Excel UI

Im interested in this too as my experience is the same as yours.

Personally I feel like going in to JS/G apps script is actually a big bonus as it means you avoid some of the really gross stuff that you get in excel (which ime ends up being really hard to maintain).

Re: Show HN: A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets

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Post by mccorrinall »

keiran01 wrote: post #8
robertlagrant wrote: post #5

This is why Google Sheets should be taking over the world. API-accessible, Javascript-scriptable, nice collaboration features. How are they not beating Excel online?

It's a horrific product for anyone who actually has to use a spreadsheet for work. The developers seem pre-occupied with building strange bells and whistles while ceding power user functionality to Excel. Using Excel vs. Google Sheets saves me easily 20 hours a week.

I recently had to create a power set in Excel and had to use this VBA monstrosity: http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/tips/powerset.html

I haven't used Google Sheets yet, but looks like I could just use their API and use a simple PIP package?

Re: Show HN: A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets

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Post by dhruval »

selfportrait wrote: post #9
keiran01 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a horrific product for anyone who actually has to use a spreadsheet for work. The developers seem pre-occupied with building strange bells and whistles while ceding power user functionality to Excel. Using Excel vs. Google Sheets saves me easily 20 hours a week.

What is missing in Sheets that would save you 20 hours a week vs. Excel? Genuinely curious to hear real world examples from a power user, because in the worst case scenario I use JS/G Apps Script to automate analysis/organization, which is actually a preference for me if I can't do it easily enough with a formula. I also can't stand Excel UI

For larger spreadsheets google sheets is far less performant than Excel, even the cloud version of Excel.
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