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One of the main excel advantages come from the fact that the app presents useful features and never changed their interface. Unlike modern software that try to
by coliveira 6y ago
One of the main excel advantages come from the fact that the app presents useful features and never changed their interface. Unlike modern software that try to change their workflow to "improve" it, excel has kept the same stable interface for decades. This allows people to create workflows built on the software, not fighting it. Excel users know that the interface they employ will be stable for another 20 years, or even more. Very few applications can say this, the other ones I know of including Vim and Emacs.
- warmwaffles 6y agoWhen they updated the interface from office 2003 to fit with the new hot rounded UI was a tragedy.
- asdff 6y agoNo one held a gun to your head and told you to uninstall perfectly good office 2003
- warmwaffles 6y agoExcept when it was forced on us by our IT department.
- chungy 6y agoAnd the file format was entirely replaced with XLSX. Yes, there were plugins to support XLSX (and even ODS) in Excel 2003, but it wasn't well-known.
- charwalker 6y agoYeah, they tried adding a Ribbon once in 2007 and it blew up so much they left it in but barely changed it since.
- asdff 6y agoR would like a word. 45 years of workflows and still going.
- pwdisswordfish0 6y ago"Stable"? Like the version that screws up basic window management features? (Simulates the Alt+Tab behavior; doesn't actually let you have two Excel windows side-by-side.) Thanks, Office team.