• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Excel is why Office rules the world. It’s the finest spreadsheet program out there, best in class, and here’s the thing, it never changes. You can trust Excel with your business data. Your employees know how to use it and what to expect. Power users can write their own code.

    Been using M$ since 3.11. Hell, even tried 2.0 a few times. I can bag on about anything they’ve done, but not Excel.

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      10 days ago

      Well there is the automatic date guessing, and that time the NHS lost months of covid data to a row maximum…

      But both of those are trivial to avoid if you know you need to

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      10 days ago

      I remember reading that that too no longer is the case as Excel also added some new AI features that makes it just as unreliable somehow. Don’t ask for a source, I remember reading it like 2 weeks ago

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        9 days ago

        Read that too, but there’s no way in hell MS won’t allow that to be turned off in Excel, and it’s likely opt-in. They are not about to kill their cash cow no matter how hard they’re pushing AI.

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          5 days ago

          Eeehh, have you been paying attention? MS has been doing a godunholy amount of stupid things lately, like pushing win11 which requires new hardware which pushes people to Linux.

          This too, it wouldn’t surprise me, will be pushed down everyone’s throats