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> It’s fine as a replacement for Word (I guess? I’m not much of a Word user). Google Docs is to Word what Google Sheets is to Excel in terms of functionality.
by chipotle_coyote 5y ago
> It’s fine as a replacement for Word (I guess? I’m not much of a Word user).
Google Docs is to Word what Google Sheets is to Excel in terms of functionality. As long as what you're doing is simple, it's fine, and if what you're doing requires collaboration, it's great. But when you want to do something remotely complex, Docs and Sheets largely get their asses handed to them by Apple's free iWork apps, let alone Microsoft Office.
- exhilaration 5y agoI mean, you're right, no one at Goldman Sachs is using Google sheets unless it's to get everyone's lunch orders together. (Hell, I bet Google's finance team uses Excel.) But most of us don't work at Goldman and don't do anything remotely complex. I would guess that 90% of Excel users fall into this category and that's who Sheets is for.
- jslove 5y agoAnd the rest of the people should be using pandas, a database, or data visualization tools (tableau) instead.
- ubermonkey 5y agoWhy?
- CRConrad 5y agoBecause being dependent on Salesforce is so much better than being dependent on any other big proprietary corporation?
- throwaway2037 5y agoI don't know any huge, non-tech companies (insurance, commercial banks, investment banks, heavy industry, auto manufs, etc.) that use the Google ecosystem (office & mail). I'm sure all of them use Microsoft Exchange (slowly moving to MSFT cloud), instead of GMail. If someone knows any good exceptions, please share!
- blitzar 5y agohttps://workspace.google.com/learn-more/pwc_and_google_bringing_transformation_to_work.html https://workspace.google.com/learn-more/pwc_and_google_bring... I think the big transition at PWC was 5 years or so ago I think, but to this day every document I get from them is Excel / Word. Despite how much work went into those accounts - these are not complex spreadsheets either!
- throwaway2037 5y agoDid you ever think that PWC is sending Excel/Word to exchange data with outside parties? And internally the use GSuite? It seems possible.
- realaether 5y agoTwo things make Google Sheets infinitely more useful than Excel to me on a daily basis: - Regex support in find & replace and regexextract(). - FX rates as a formula instead of as a data type. IIRC Excel requires 2 columns to display a FX rate (one to specify the pair, one to print the number); Google Sheets specifies the pair inside the formula.