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Re:Excel Never Dies by bcoates on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:36PM (#26389648)
Google sheets has a 5 million cell limit, and can't usefully do things cross-workbook. In practice complex spreadsheets substantially smaller than that are slow and unstable.

That said, the multi-user editing is much smoother than excel and the remote API is better.

Re:Excel Never Dies by yread on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:08PM (#26390083)
Except that it keeps changing. It's already on version 4 and at least one forced a complete rewrite of accessing cell values (and of course the old version was discontinued). Compared to Excel files from the 90s that keep running