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I get really surprised every time it comes up, that something else hasn't come up, like Access or Libreoffice Base, that people in non-finance fields organicall
by happymellon 3y ago
I get really surprised every time it comes up, that something else hasn't come up, like Access or Libreoffice Base, that people in non-finance fields organically gathered around because of it being:
- Easier to use
- Less likely to eat your data
- Less limitations (although we missed taking advantage of the limited columns issue in Excel)
I understand the concept that Excel is easy to get started with and Access wasn't provided with the lower options of Office, but it still seems odd.
- hulitu 3y agoLibreoffice has trouble with big datasets. Since some time, Excel is the only one able to process big spreadsheets. I hate Excel and i would love to see LibreOffice being used, but in this case Excel is better. Access was usually a distinctive option of the Office package. And the interface was strange.
- happymellon 3y agoCompletely agree. It just feels strange that everyone keeps using a spreadsheet that's done everything from destroying economies because of miscalculating whether austerity was bad, to screwing up multiple scientific papers in different ways; and that nothing better has come along.