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Honestly I'd recommend Google Docs but the truth is, if you are an Excel power user there is really nothing quite like it without taking that next jump into SQL

Honestly I'd recommend Google Docs but the truth is, if you are an Excel power user there is really nothing quite like it without taking that next jump into SQL or something like Python/R. Google Sheets will let you use SQLite though which is cool.

A4ET8a8uTh0 5y ago
I personally am starting to feel that tools are secondary and restrictions imposed by the office environment come first. You want to be able to jump between them as needed, because heavens know my place won't let me openly use Python.
bko 5y ago
Google's version of Excel has come a long way. Worth checking out again. The thing you're missing though is the shortcuts which are very important for heavy Excel users. I never understood why the open source excel clones didn't focus on shortcuts. If they could build an interface to map your own, someone could create a shortcut profile to mimic Excel, or even your own shortcut profile. That would be a game changer
- aksss 5y ago
  Even the shortcuts on Mac are different for Excel. Sounds crazy (maybe is crazy) but that’s a jarring blow to productivity and surely intentional. If you have used excel for any length of time, you really depend on shortcuts. I probably store them in the same memory registers as the Contra cheat codes, never to be forgotten.
- benhurmarcel 5y ago
  Google Sheets is quite decent now but still struggles with large files (or simply can't open them).
stjohnswarts 5y ago
Eh moving from Microsoft to Google is just moving from Beelzebub to Asmodeus.
- tempnow987 5y ago
  What is annoying is that office is starting to do little cross promo's - try downloading this app to your iphone, you can edit office anywhere. If you log into a number of machines, you see these same alerts everywhere. Google seems less obtrusive with this stuff. That said, yes, if I could get to open source I would.
benhurmarcel 5y ago
Google Docs still lacks some pretty basic and important features. You can't number headings and figures automatically for example. There's no cross-referencing.

A4ET8a8uTh0 5y ago

I personally am starting to feel that tools are secondary and restrictions imposed by the office environment come first. You want to be able to jump between them as needed, because heavens know my place won't let me openly use Python.

bko 5y ago

Google's version of Excel has come a long way. Worth checking out again. The thing you're missing though is the shortcuts which are very important for heavy Excel users. I never understood why the open source excel clones didn't focus on shortcuts. If they could build an interface to map your own, someone could create a shortcut profile to mimic Excel, or even your own shortcut profile. That would be a game changer

aksss 5y ago
Even the shortcuts on Mac are different for Excel. Sounds crazy (maybe is crazy) but that’s a jarring blow to productivity and surely intentional. If you have used excel for any length of time, you really depend on shortcuts. I probably store them in the same memory registers as the Contra cheat codes, never to be forgotten.
benhurmarcel 5y ago
Google Sheets is quite decent now but still struggles with large files (or simply can't open them).

stjohnswarts 5y ago

Eh moving from Microsoft to Google is just moving from Beelzebub to Asmodeus.

tempnow987 5y ago
What is annoying is that office is starting to do little cross promo's - try downloading this app to your iphone, you can edit office anywhere. If you log into a number of machines, you see these same alerts everywhere. Google seems less obtrusive with this stuff. That said, yes, if I could get to open source I would.

benhurmarcel 5y ago

Google Docs still lacks some pretty basic and important features. You can't number headings and figures automatically for example. There's no cross-referencing.