That is the only legit solution I’ve heard so far. What is your experience with it? A worthy replacement?
replyNo. Excel really doesn't have an equivalent replacement. Other parts of the office suite do although if you're a lawyer (revision marking) or have other specific integration needs, you probably need Word.
replyIf you're just doing lists with maybe some simple calcs (which is what most people use spreadsheets for most of the time), pretty much anything works.
May I ask for a few examples of things you do in Excel that don't have a replacement?
replyThe vast majority of people I have seen using Excel don't know how to write a formula. Now they just started copy-pasting whatever ChatGPT was telling them to copy-paste, but well... and anyway all the alternatives do support formulas of course.
There are plenty of functional replacements. However there are zero replacements that emulate the same keystrokes and keyboard shortcuts and all other aspects of hard-won muscle memory like function names and quirks of behavior.
replyWhen companies don't want their employees to work remotely and force them to come to the office because they think it's more profitable, it's not like they give a shit what the employees think.
replyWhy would they give a shit about the little comfort of the employees who don't want to learn new shortcuts?
It's been years since I've really tried to exercise Excel (and haven't used it--or Libre Office--in a long time). Pivot tables, a number of the other data-related functions... Just a bunch of things I'm not going to spend a couple of days digging into. Google Workspace works fine for my needs.
replyPivot tables have been in Calc for years. Do you have any current, specific examples of things you need from Calc that it can't do?
replyBut then it really sounds like "yeah, Excel does have alternatives"?
replyFor my use case, mainly science stuff, works like a charm. I find Calc better because I could never get used to the ribbon, and it's also way faster.
I actually did my whole thesis in LibreOffice, including all text, references and figures. Afterwards, during the PhD, it was replaced mostly by Python and R, but at that point I was really hitting some resource limits with huge CSVs.
replyThe main issue is that excel has some proprietary features that make it hard to migrate off.
replyOtherwise calc has everything for most people. Macros work different a little.
I sometimes use it for personal use and it seems all right, but I'm not a power user.
replyI've been finding myself using Google Sheets more, which has the potential for the same problems in this article.
It might be a worthy replacement for Excel 95, but not really for anything modern.
replyIt works with csv which is totally broken in excel
replymaybe this could be used as a base and people could use AI to create extra features they need on top of it if there are things missing that Excel has that they want
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