Poll: Excel or Numbers

This poll will reveal more about what you use spreadsheets for than anything else. Excel is often used as a Mini-OS, running programs and interfacing with databases, the web, etc.

I've never seen Numbers used that way.

Re: Poll: Excel or Numbers

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Post by RiderOfGiraffes » Sat, Jan 02, 2010, 10:06 PM UTC

kogir wrote: post #7

This poll will reveal more about what you use spreadsheets for than anything else. Excel is often used as a Mini-OS, running programs and interfacing with databases, the web, etc. I've never seen Numbers used that way.

I've never seen Excel used that way, and I'm interested to hear that it can. As a programmer I've usually just fired up an interpreter and run scripts - can you suggest a tutorial for Excel being used as a Mini-OS ??

Thanks.

Re: Poll: Excel or Numbers

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Post by pierrefar » Sat, Jan 02, 2010, 10:17 PM UTC

Hacking in Excel is much like hacking in any other language. I love the power it gives me and the fast development of analysis spreadsheets.

The graphs are ugly by default though, but 2008 made strides to fix that.

Re: Poll: Excel or Numbers

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Post by Bradlinc » Sun, Jan 03, 2010, 12:22 AM UTC

I use both. For the most part I stay in Numbers but for other many things Excel on the Mac is still better then numbers. For example, Quickbooks will export reports directly into Excel but not into Numbers. Also the 'Text to Columns' feature works better in Excel then in Numbers. In general I think Excel is a more powerful program then Numbers. However on the Windows side Excel beats both mac applications hands down.