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Poll: Excel or Numbers
Microsoft Excel vs iWork Numbers
- graywh 17y agoGnumeric
- ludwig 17y agoNumPy
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoYou need to add a "neither." I use Python/Sage/NumPy, and when I want to send stuff to non-techie Windows users, OpenOffice Calc.
- mseebach 17y agoFor my modest needs, OpenOffice Calc does the trick.
- muckster 17y agoGoogle Docs Spreadsheet here.
- kogir 17y agoThis 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.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoI'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.
- Bradlinc 17y agoI 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.
- pierrefar 17y agoHacking 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.
- Scott_MacGregor 17y agoExcel
- amoeba 17y agoR