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You’re thinking as an individual. Excel in the business is what keeps Office afloat. There simply is no substitute. Even if you want to go with another spreadsheet, who’s going to trust that to faithfully import Excel data?

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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m not sure I even trust Excel to import an Excel file without mangling it.

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  LOL, Excel doesn’t mangle shit. It’s best-in-class spreadsheet software for a dozen reasons. #1 being that it never changes. It’s solid, no other software like it. Business won’t risk fucking around with anything else.
  
  SOURCE: Sysadmin for several companies, and one that mainly used Google for Business. Accounting still had to have Excel.
  
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  - skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    SOURCE: Sysadmin for several companies,
    
    So, not actually an Excel power user then.
    
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    shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Well, no? It would be ridiculous to expect me to be a power user over all the software I’ve administrated. I judge what people need according to business demands and orders from on high. My judgement is that, yes, some business units require Excel.
    
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- modular950@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  you guys are able to save an excel file without it nuking everything?
  
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Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
How many individuals care about what businesses do though? Usually they provide the hardware too, so it’s whatever when it comes to what the company chooses to use.

These are more individual concerns for personal hardware. So long live LibreOffice.

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Bruh. We’re talking about a certain piece of software. You’re getting a bit off track.
  
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  - Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Not really. What software and hardware a corporation chooses to use for their workforce is something that employees will not have much control over if they aren’t in a high enough position.
    
    Anything provided by a company is company property anyways. What matters more to me is what is used for personal use that a work computer or work phone or work etc.
    
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