collaboration with classmates that use office, mostly
i guess we could use collabora or onlyoffice? but i feel like if i go to them asking “hey can you all create accounts on other services which you will find worse so i can avoid using a laggy website” they’ll just call me a nuisance
i guess we could use google docs, frankly docs is better than word online imo, but even then it’s trading trash for garbage…
I haven’t used spreadsheet software in decades, but I have helped some convert to Windows to Linux. Some of them did use Excel, and therefore had to learn to use LibreOffice Calc, and while they had some expected difficulties during the initial learning curve, they did say a few months later to me that they were eventually satisfied with the software.
Nevertheless, I’m sure much like the GIMP/Photoshop comparison, Excel simply has features that Calc doesn’t.
I am mildly curious. Could you give an example of a feature that its likely many businesses and/or individuals use in Excel that simply doesn’t exist in, or is too difficult to implement in Calc?
My bet is that there’s some weirdly complex things that become too niche edge cases that are difficult to transfer.
My opinion is when your logic becomes too complicated, maybe you want to have some sort of custom software. But, on the other hand, I understand that if it works already, there’s no need to break it either.
There are several types of basic Excel formulaes that don’t work on web Excel, and are ofc not in Calc either. Same with VBA integrations (within Excel and other Office/Windows services) that are used as core data transformation infrastructure to run entire companies, lmao.
Not necessarily. It’s often less Calc’s capability that is at issue, and moreso its compatibility with imported sheets. Calc tends to have every feature I need when I make a spreadsheet.
As if any amount of customisation is going to make LibreOffice not look like a janky mess on anything except the exact desktop environment and DPI settings one developer had…
Not that appearance is the most important thing in the app but whenever I open up Calc and half the UI is in dark mode, the other in light mode, half the UI is scaled to one DPI half to another, all the icons look like the best an unpaid software developer could do with 5 minutes in The GIMP circa 1995, it makes me cry a little bit.
The web version is very inferior to the desktop one. I had to use it at work and it was a very frustrating experience, e.g. missing many conditional formatting options.
Great news, now MS Office is all that’s left.
oh god please. i need ms office for uni, i use the browser version, and holy shit is it bad. it makes me regret google docs…
just curious, what do you need it for alternatives like wps and lo can’t do?
it’s excel isn’t it?
collaboration with classmates that use office, mostly
i guess we could use collabora or onlyoffice? but i feel like if i go to them asking “hey can you all create accounts on other services which you will find worse so i can avoid using a laggy website” they’ll just call me a nuisance
i guess we could use google docs, frankly docs is better than word online imo, but even then it’s trading trash for garbage…
it’s garbage that runs in a browser though!
It works with Crossover, just hope they can port their changes one day.
Fortunately it takes only around 5 minutes of customizing the appearance of libreoffice to have it exactly how you want it
lol no, Calc comes nowhere near the functionality of Excel no matter how close you make its UI.
I would imagine the vast majority of Excel written everywhere uses very basic features.
I haven’t used spreadsheet software in decades, but I have helped some convert to Windows to Linux. Some of them did use Excel, and therefore had to learn to use LibreOffice Calc, and while they had some expected difficulties during the initial learning curve, they did say a few months later to me that they were eventually satisfied with the software.
Nevertheless, I’m sure much like the GIMP/Photoshop comparison, Excel simply has features that Calc doesn’t.
I am mildly curious. Could you give an example of a feature that its likely many businesses and/or individuals use in Excel that simply doesn’t exist in, or is too difficult to implement in Calc?
Power Query is the biggest one. It used to be pivottables and formulae like xlookup as well, but Calc seems to have caught up to them nowadays.
My bet is that there’s some weirdly complex things that become too niche edge cases that are difficult to transfer.
My opinion is when your logic becomes too complicated, maybe you want to have some sort of custom software. But, on the other hand, I understand that if it works already, there’s no need to break it either.
There are several types of basic Excel formulaes that don’t work on web Excel, and are ofc not in Calc either. Same with VBA integrations (within Excel and other Office/Windows services) that are used as core data transformation infrastructure to run entire companies, lmao.
I was not aware of these. Thank you for making me aware of them.
Not necessarily. It’s often less Calc’s capability that is at issue, and moreso its compatibility with imported sheets. Calc tends to have every feature I need when I make a spreadsheet.
As if any amount of customisation is going to make LibreOffice not look like a janky mess on anything except the exact desktop environment and DPI settings one developer had…
Not that appearance is the most important thing in the app but whenever I open up Calc and half the UI is in dark mode, the other in light mode, half the UI is scaled to one DPI half to another, all the icons look like the best an unpaid software developer could do with 5 minutes in The GIMP circa 1995, it makes me cry a little bit.
Already runs in browser
The web version is very inferior to the desktop one. I had to use it at work and it was a very frustrating experience, e.g. missing many conditional formatting options.