@whatstatersprecious@lemmy.world
2026-09-13 21:43 UTC
I’ve tried a bunch of spreadsheet programs. They are all painful to use compared to excel.
Sure, you can type up some basic calcs in LibreOffice or Numbers or whatever, but none of these could replicate the stuff I do daily for work in excel unfortunately.
That said, the lack of suitable alternatives did get me to learn Python for personal use. And that opened up a whole new world for things I do at work too. Things that would have been a headache in excel are a couple lines in Python. It’s great (obviously very different use cases from typical spreadsheets)
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@VanRado@lemmy.world 2026-09-13 23:21
You know we should start migrating (or porting) our complicated spreadsheets from VB to python. This is a wise move for future proofing. But I’m also very busy, and a little lazy, so I procrastinate and never do it. Some VMs now are so good that I just open these big visual basic spreadsheets in a windows VM, further delaying the necessary task.
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@mcheva@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-14 05:01
Fucken Calligra yeah I want all the cells to be dark themed like my OS fuck being able to see my data. Dead on arrival. Libre office was better.
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@Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2026-09-15 11:27
Things that would have been a headache in excel are a couple lines in Python I gotta get back into it