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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by discreditable on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:22PM (#16603289)
I agree that sheets is no excel, but it does almost everything I need, and a few things better. A few examples:

- JavaScript as a scripting language. (It's no python but it's nicer than vbscript.)

- Builtin regex functions (regexextract, regexmatch, regexreplace).

Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by fauigerzigerk on Friday March 16, 2018 @04:33PM (#16603831)
JavaScript is now the main language for writing Office add-ins: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/excel/ex...
Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by discreditable on Saturday March 17, 2018 @11:17AM (#16607315)
Seems like preview builds only at the moment. Reading the docs it also seems a lot more involved than the Google Docs workflow of Tools > Script Editor > write code.
Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by F2 on Friday March 16, 2018 @05:10PM (#16604051)
Does it work on mac yet?
Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by fauigerzigerk on Friday March 16, 2018 @05:19PM (#16604104)
They say "Cross-platform support: Excel add-ins run in Office for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Office Online"