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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by sofixa on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:19AM (#35324200)
> I sadly still need to use Excel in a VM sometimes, because the text import crashes in Wine.

Wouldn't Excel Online be enough to do the trick? It's supposedly feature complete.

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by dagw on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:32AM (#35324285)
It's supposedly feature complete.

It is not. For one thing it is missing macros, power pivot, many solvers and support for third-party add-ons. It also screws up some visual things like text placement and the like.

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by wizzwizz4 on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:27AM (#35324258)
It's far from feature-complete. If Excel Online is good enough for you, the faster, more stable LibreOffice Calc is good enough for you.

People use Microsoft Excel for the stuff that just nothing else does.

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by sandworm101 on Monday March 27, 2023 @06:37AM (#35324974)
Or the stuff that no other software wants to do. Macros that can upload your financial records to a Latvian server after a single click in an email? Nobody else wants to do that.
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by thesuitonym on Monday March 27, 2023 @10:06AM (#35326818)
Don't try to understand the mind of a chronic Excel user: Their minds are as unknowable as an octopus' mind.
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by mywittyname on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:08AM (#35327685)
I think it's more that Excel is incredibly capable. People who reach the status of Excel Power User are akin to F1 Drivers who need every seemingly absurd capability found on their steering wheels.
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by thesuitonym on Monday March 27, 2023 @12:10PM (#35328464)
Oh for sure, people use Excel to make the world go round. But for plebs like me, trying to understand it is just a path to madness.
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:19PM (#35329424)
Excel is not tremendously capable, but near-infinitely flexible.

It's a strange amorphous organism that can be coaxed into doing almost anything, if poorly.

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