You're entitled to your opinion but I would say Excel is one of the best, if not THE best spreadsheet application ever produced. It's one thing that Microsoft actually got mostly right and one of the only reasons I still pay for an Office 365 subscription.

If you're just creating simple spreadsheets, there's plenty of other options out there.

But, if you're a power user doing a lot of complex data analytics, Excel is still the king.

My main gripe is that I still have to use VBA for a lot of stuff behind the scenes. Yuck.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're going to do complex data analysis, isn't it a pain to use ANY spreadsheet software, no matter how good? I do mine as a Jupyter notebook. The spreadsheet is just for looking at the numbers, maybe sorting some things.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stop making me feel like my Excel knowledge is useless😔

[–] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Excel is definitely not useless! Learning a little Python (especially the pandas package) can go a long way in making data analysis easier though

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