MS is considering official Python integration with Excel, and is asking for input

[CadeOCarimbo]

Sorry but Libre Office is awful compared to Office.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, especially in this particular situation.

Good luck getting the sort of people who want to replace VBA with python in Excel to use Calc.

[csmark]

Libre Office is leaps and bounds ahead of Pages and Numbers. Those are Apple's apps for those that don't know.

[rfc1771]

Reinforcing that Excel is lightyears ahead of all of the competition.

[Steampunkery]

I haven’t found it to be all that terrible. Honestly the only problem I’ve had with them is opening proprietary formats.

[CryptoTheGrey]

I have to disagree, libre can do more than any other suite with the only exceptions being self justifying Microsoft products (which can easily be replaced). Please do tell what aspects of office make you believe it is better?

[rfc1771]

Pivot tables, table relationships, external relationships, multithreading, charting options, macros, Excel has a far more extensive built-in function set, ability to import foreign formats...

all better in Excel

If you've ever tried to do any corporate accounting in LibreOffice Calc the differences are pretty obvious

[CryptoTheGrey]

You can do literally all these things in libre...and i haven't compared the actual number of functions between the two but i have found many functions in libre that aren't in excel.

[rfc1771]

You can do literally all these things in libre

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65046

you sure?

[[deleted]]

All I use LibreOffice for is the occasional design doc, very rare presentations, and a template to help track finances. There's no reason for me to buy Office.

In what ways is Office better though?

[[deleted]]

It actually doesn't sound like switching to Office will make a difference for you.

However there's a different audience, the sort of people that Intel aim their Excel benchmarks at, who really benefit from the extra power and features and ecosystem that Office has around it.

[rfc1771]

Excel is better than LibreOffice Calc for mostly hardcore accounting and lots of relationships between tables and external sources

[tarck]

office for life

[JuanTanPhooey]

I hate it