Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by realaether on Saturday August 28, 2021 @09:36AM
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Two things make Google Sheets infinitely more useful than Excel to me on a daily basis:
- Regex support in find & replace and regexextract(). - FX rates as a formula instead of as a data type. IIRC Excel requires 2 columns to display a FX rate (one to specify the pair, one to print the number); Google Sheets specifies the pair inside the formula.
Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by exhilaration on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:43PM
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I mean, you're right, no one at Goldman Sachs is using Google sheets unless it's to get everyone's lunch orders together. (Hell, I bet Google's finance team uses Excel.) But most of us don't work at Goldman and don't do anything remotely complex. I would guess that 90% of Excel users fall into this category and that's who Sheets is for.
Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by throwaway2037 on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:58AM
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I don't know any huge, non-tech companies (insurance, commercial banks, investment banks, heavy industry, auto manufs, etc.) that use the Google ecosystem (office & mail). I'm sure all of them use Microsoft Exchange (slowly moving to MSFT cloud), instead of GMail. If someone knows any good exceptions, please share!
Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by blitzar on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:37AM
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https://workspace.google.com/learn-more/pwc_and_google_bring...
I think the big transition at PWC was 5 years or so ago I think, but to this day every document I get from them is Excel / Word. Despite how much work went into those accounts - these are not complex spreadsheets either!
Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by throwaway2037 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:09PM
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Did you ever think that PWC is sending Excel/Word to exchange data with outside parties? And internally the use GSuite? It seems possible.
Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by jslove on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:15AM
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And the rest of the people should be using pandas, a database, or data visualization tools (tableau) instead.
Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by CRConrad on Monday August 30, 2021 @07:03PM
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Because being dependent on Salesforce is so much better than being dependent on any other big proprietary corporation?
Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by ubermonkey on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:16PM
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Why?
Google Docs is to Word what Google Sheets is to Excel in terms of functionality. As long as what you're doing is simple, it's fine, and if what you're doing requires collaboration, it's great. But when you want to do something remotely complex, Docs and Sheets largely get their asses handed to them by Apple's free iWork apps, let alone Microsoft Office.