'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
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Re: 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
#2Quotes from people 30 and above which sounds about right. Is anyone these days growing up using Excel over Google Sheets? You used to have to pirate Excel and Google just gives it away for free with a free email account.
Re: 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
#3Quotes from people 30 and above which sounds about right. Is anyone these days growing up using Excel over Google Sheets? You used to have to pirate Excel and Google just gives it away for free with a free email account.
But then you have all the usability issues of a complex app shoehorned into a browser. I'll always use a native application when it's available.
Re: 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
#4Quotes from people 30 and above which sounds about right. Is anyone these days growing up using Excel over Google Sheets? You used to have to pirate Excel and Google just gives it away for free with a free email account.
Excel leaves GSheets and all its alternatives in the dust in terms of performance and stability.
I used to maintain MIS trackers in Google Sheets once, and when my company made the inevitable shift to MS Suite I saw an immediate improvement. FWIW I'm 25.
Re: 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
#5My spouse has a background in engineering and health sciences and is an Excel fan. I do IT support, and I kind of hate Excel, but I kind of love Apple's Numbers app.
Re: 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
#6I have several extremely complex spreadsheets that have reached a breaking point because "the maximum number of fonts has been exceeded". There's like 8 fonts being used at most. The problem is, I don't have an alternative piece of software that can maintain the other very complicated formatting, let alone import it. And it now starts to revert formatting randomly throughout the spreadsheets. It's a widely known problem with no solution I can find to date.
Google Sheets is great, but I'm probably one of the very few people who thinks we need a more robust and feature rich spreadsheet software, if only to compel Microsoft to strengthen their own.
Re: 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
#7My spouse has a background in engineering and health sciences and is an Excel fan. I do IT support, and I kind of hate Excel, but I kind of love Apple's Numbers app.
Numbers could be nice if it was fast. Unfortunately it’s dog slow. It’s good enough with the simplest formulas, but once you try to actually use it for anything, it becomes unbearable.
Re: 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
#8Quotes from people 30 and above which sounds about right. Is anyone these days growing up using Excel over Google Sheets? You used to have to pirate Excel and Google just gives it away for free with a free email account.
Free isn’t good enough. Sheets has stupid limitations like a hard cap of 10M or so cells per document.
Re: 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
#9Quotes from people 30 and above which sounds about right. Is anyone these days growing up using Excel over Google Sheets? You used to have to pirate Excel and Google just gives it away for free with a free email account.
But then you have all the usability issues of a complex app shoehorned into a browser. I'll always use a native application when it's available.
Sheets is unfortunately mostly better than Numbers.
Re: 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
#10Quotes from people 30 and above which sounds about right. Is anyone these days growing up using Excel over Google Sheets? You used to have to pirate Excel and Google just gives it away for free with a free email account.
I love GSheets for convenience. But as soon as you're doing anything large and complex, GSheets might as well not even exist. It's simply not viable.