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I shouldn’t respond to this but…in what universe? Please share whatever drug you’re on with the class.

by filmgirlcw 4y ago

orange_fritter 4y ago
Apple Numbers for iOS has entered the chat
- filmgirlcw 4y ago
  I almost made a Numbers joke!
- HFguy 4y ago
  Nice...I would give you an award if I could.
t6jvcereio 4y ago
I bet you it's someone who used Excel for work, and whose entire analysis is something like "it's on the browser and it's easier to share documents".
makeitdouble 4y ago
Yes, that's a crazy thing to say without explaination. I think Excel will be unbeatable as an offline spreadsheet application for many years, if a competitor ever appears. Now, if what you're looking for is not offline spreadsheets, but a tabular interface that can be messed around in JS, with an API integration, Sheets is an excellent product that fills Excel's niche but in a connected system. disclaimer: I haven't touched much of office 365's online part, but am under the impression scripting with cloud services is not the direction MS is going for.
- samplatt 4y ago
  >scripting with cloud services is not the direction MS is going for. It absofuckinglutely is the direction they're going for. MS Flow, Teams and Sharepoint integration, upgrades to simultaneous-editing-documents-in-the-browser... the main problem is that they're trying to go too big too quickly which is causing hiccups especially from MS Teams, and also that anyone that doesn't use Excel seriously is already on Google Sheets with no real reason to migrate.
- Godel_unicode 4y ago
  Excel has had a JavaScript api since at least 2016. Excel online definitely has the ability to integrate with online services, although at that point you really want something like Power Automate. See also Microsoft Graph, which has an Excel API as well. Edit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/excel?view=graph-rest-1.0 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/excel?v...
  - foomz 4y ago
- filmgirlcw 4y ago
  Totally agree that Sheets is better as a quick and dirty web-based spreadsheet app. I’d still prefer something like Airtable for most of the use cases you outlined, but Sheets is absolutely a good quick and dirty tool. But once you go beyond that, all, as we’re both saying, it’s not even a conversation. And anyone who is trying to argue against Excel on its merits as a power app (no pun intended) is on something or not arguing in good faith. (O365 has improved a lot but I still think GSuite feels faster. But I don’t hate Office Online or whatever it is called.)

I shouldn’t respond to this but…in what universe? Please share whatever drug you’re on with the class.

orange_fritter 4y ago

Apple Numbers for iOS has entered the chat

filmgirlcw 4y ago
I almost made a Numbers joke!
HFguy 4y ago
Nice...I would give you an award if I could.

t6jvcereio 4y ago

I bet you it's someone who used Excel for work, and whose entire analysis is something like "it's on the browser and it's easier to share documents".

makeitdouble 4y ago

Yes, that's a crazy thing to say without explaination. I think Excel will be unbeatable as an offline spreadsheet application for many years, if a competitor ever appears. Now, if what you're looking for is not offline spreadsheets, but a tabular interface that can be messed around in JS, with an API integration, Sheets is an excellent product that fills Excel's niche but in a connected system. disclaimer: I haven't touched much of office 365's online part, but am under the impression scripting with cloud services is not the direction MS is going for.

samplatt 4y ago
>scripting with cloud services is not the direction MS is going for. It absofuckinglutely is the direction they're going for. MS Flow, Teams and Sharepoint integration, upgrades to simultaneous-editing-documents-in-the-browser... the main problem is that they're trying to go too big too quickly which is causing hiccups especially from MS Teams, and also that anyone that doesn't use Excel seriously is already on Google Sheets with no real reason to migrate.
Godel_unicode 4y ago
Excel has had a JavaScript api since at least 2016. Excel online definitely has the ability to integrate with online services, although at that point you really want something like Power Automate. See also Microsoft Graph, which has an Excel API as well. Edit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/excel?view=graph-rest-1.0 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/excel?v...
- foomz 4y ago
filmgirlcw 4y ago
Totally agree that Sheets is better as a quick and dirty web-based spreadsheet app. I’d still prefer something like Airtable for most of the use cases you outlined, but Sheets is absolutely a good quick and dirty tool. But once you go beyond that, all, as we’re both saying, it’s not even a conversation. And anyone who is trying to argue against Excel on its merits as a power app (no pun intended) is on something or not arguing in good faith. (O365 has improved a lot but I still think GSuite feels faster. But I don’t hate Office Online or whatever it is called.)