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> I sadly still need to use Excel in a VM sometimes, because the text import crashes in Wine. Wouldn't Excel Online be enough to do the trick? It's supposedly
by sofixa 4y ago
> I sadly still need to use Excel in a VM sometimes, because the text import crashes in Wine.
Wouldn't Excel Online be enough to do the trick? It's supposedly feature complete.
- wizzwizz4 4y agoIt's far from feature-complete. If Excel Online is good enough for you, the faster, more stable LibreOffice Calc is good enough for you. People use Microsoft Excel for the stuff that just nothing else does.
- sandworm101 4y agoOr the stuff that no other software wants to do. Macros that can upload your financial records to a Latvian server after a single click in an email? Nobody else wants to do that.
- dagw 4y agoIt's supposedly feature complete. It is not. For one thing it is missing macros, power pivot, many solvers and support for third-party add-ons. It also screws up some visual things like text placement and the like.
- thesuitonym 4y agoDon't try to understand the mind of a chronic Excel user: Their minds are as unknowable as an octopus' mind.
- mywittyname 4y agoI think it's more that Excel is incredibly capable. People who reach the status of Excel Power User are akin to F1 Drivers who need every seemingly absurd capability found on their steering wheels.
- thesuitonym 4y agoOh for sure, people use Excel to make the world go round. But for plebs like me, trying to understand it is just a path to madness.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoExcel is not tremendously capable, but near-infinitely flexible. It's a strange amorphous organism that can be coaxed into doing almost anything, if poorly.