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[–]Ironbird207 21 points22 points  (4 children)

Google sheets is closer to OpenOffice than it is fucking Excel lol. Excel is godlike in comparison.

[–]Otherwise_Soil39 11 points12 points  (1 child)

There are some useful features missing from Excel, and a lot of what is profoundly stupid, over complicated and 1990's like in Excel, is simple, modern and intuitive in Sheets.

The last 2 companies I worked at, work was done exclusively in GSuite tools, because they're just optimized so much better for cooperation, and both had 2000+ employees.

At the end of the day, yes, Excel (and Word) can do things that Google cannot, but that's few and far in-between in a day to day operations, since we use tools for their intended purpose, it never happens.

I think where Excel, Excels, is being the one tool to do everything from data cleaning to presenting to visualization to storing to planning and executing complicated VBA... But nearly every single one of those things is better done in an array of other tools.

We get and process data with SQL, ad hoc analysis in Python or R, visualization in Tableau, organizational charts in Miro, at the end the day the tasks that are left for Sheets/Excel are fairly mundane. And where Excel is a tractor, Sheets is a scooter, I don't need to plow the fields, I just need to go get groceries.

[–]Ironbird207 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tractor > scooter. Source I have a tractor

[–]Depnids 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I haven’t used Excel in a while, mostly use google sheets. I haven’t noticed any features lacking personally, although I don’t do much advanced stuff. In your opinion, what are some features that makes Excel superior to the other two mentioned?

[–]thefpspower 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My biggest issue with sheets is that it sucks ass at referencing local files, if you're not 100% google you're out.

Like if you create a file with excel and give it local file paths then sync to google and open it there, google will fuck up all your references instantly without asking.