Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s...
by lifeisstillgood on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @03:35PM
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Excel is cared about a lot in some industries - finance it is still running huge amounts of the workflow (from hedge funds to major banks whose auditors pull their hair out)
The main point I'm making is that of the troika of office applications, only the spreadsheet still has value. I suspect I could teach everyone Markdown far faster and with better outcomes than teach Word users to move to (open office equivalent)
It's something about software literacy - you just don't need Word anymore.
It's been a decade since I've worked anywhere were anyone cared about Excel. I realize that I'm working in a "bubble" given the type of companies I tend to work with, but it does clearly illustrate that, yes, there are certainly people and companies that care about spreadsheets other than Excel.