• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    three reasons:

    1. power query
    2. keyboard shortcuts
    3. pioneer for new functions (e.g., xlookup, dot-colon, let, etc)

    oh, and excel doesn’t crash like a boeing at annoyingly frequent random intervals.

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      1 day ago

      Libre office is significantly more stable for me than office365 on a win11 machine running on hardware from 2023. It just always works and quickly.

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      2 days ago

      oh, and excel doesn’t crash like a boeing at annoyingly frequent random intervals.

      then you aren’t running anything past Excel 2016

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        2 days ago

        Of course not, we’re talking about Enterprise here. Newer versions of Excel won’t run on Windows XP.