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Office suites cover quite a bit more use cases than LaTeX or markdown. Civil clerks worldwide use Word daily to create dense forms for people to fill out. That
by mr_mitm 3y ago
Office suites cover quite a bit more use cases than LaTeX or markdown. Civil clerks worldwide use Word daily to create dense forms for people to fill out. That is a major pain in the ass to achieve with the tools you mentioned; you basically need a developer on call to create a template for you. Office suites enable almost untrained users to achieve that autonomously. Excel empowered hordes of complete laymen to do basic programming and perform database queries. I don't like office suits either, but credit where credit's due.
- JackSlateur 3y agoAnd that hordes of laymen, empowered by excel, flowed the world like a plague Haa, the fabulous "yes, this is our program, we wrote it in excel because macro because we can and do not know how to do better" if you never met it, you are lucky for being spared
- wheelerof4te 3y agoI worked with a Office layman who couldn't (and did not care to learn how to) open RAR files. Yeah.
- bee_rider 3y agoI think spreadsheets are great, I hadn’t thought to include them in with office suites, I mostly use GNUmeric.