The End of the Accounting Search

Re:The End of the Accounting Search by SoftTalker on Sunday May 21, 2023 @01:18PM (#36022959)

I'm older. I still haven't gotten over the "ribbon" interface. It drove me to LibreOffice despite all its faults.

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Re:The End of the Accounting Search by jimnotgym on Sunday May 21, 2023 @04:13PM (#36024310)

Are you a professional accountant?

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Re:The End of the Accounting Search by emeril on Sunday May 21, 2023 @06:32PM (#36025249)

I'm sure he's not, I am one and I have to use excel though I also hate the ribbon but I just use excel 2010 + ubitmenu and will continue to use that version or similar until I can't anymore

I had used excel 2003 until I was forced to use win 10 at which point it barely functioned anymore (i.e., it worked great in win 7)

I still miss excel 2003, it has been downhill from there

As for accounting software, they all mostly stink though serve a purpose in larger companies where you need some degree of separation of duties to reduce (at least in appearance as much internal control is theatre) error/theft risk...

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Re:The End of the Accounting Search by SoftTalker on Sunday May 21, 2023 @09:05PM (#36026258)

I'm not, and I'm sure if I had to use Excel every day I would adapt. But both Windows and Office reached their peak at around 2003 and it's been downhill ever since. I quite liked Windows 2000 Pro as a desktop.

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Re:The End of the Accounting Search by eitland on Sunday May 21, 2023 @04:33PM (#36024449)

It is already many years ago since that I started to do certain jobs in Libre Office (back then it was still OpenOffice.org) even if I had MS Office. I mean, it was better at certain tasks and costed nothing.

In all fairness, back them I also had to use MS Office for certain other tasks, but luckily I don't need that anymore.

Now there is Confluence instead however to mangle our docs and waste our time.

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