Agreed, my mom uses spreadsheets for things. Eventually just ended up paying for Office Home and Student 2024 because Calc confused her. Though when I helped her install Office, I did notice that she hadn’t updated LibreOffice in over two years. Wish I had noticed before she paid for Office to see if the updates for Calc might have fixed her issue. Also wish I had installed OnlyOffice to see if it might have matched the “feel” of Excel better before giving MS money.
MS also has broken and depreciated a lot of Excel’s functionality, yet it’s still the standard. People just hate change, especially the ones that aren’t actually using the product directly.
Sadly I have to agree. Being able to take my excel work home with me, where I use Linux exclusively, is the sole reason that I’m forced to use OnlyOffice vs LibreOffice. It has better compatibility with Excel by a WIDE margin.
That being said, I don’t have the issue with OnlyOffice that others seem to have. It’s desktop app is still OpenSource, it’s just the online bits and collaboration stuff that isn’t. But I’d still rather go with a non-profit like the Document Foundation than a for profit company any day of the week.
It’s all Visual Basic compatibility. Many companies use macros and programs written in Visual Basic inside Excel. As long as they continue using Visual Basic, they will continue using Excel.
Someone ought to update the spreadsheet program. Excel is the primary reason companies are stuck on MS Office.
Excel isn’t even that great and could be improved greatly, but unfortunately LibreOffice Calc is even worse currently.
Agreed, my mom uses spreadsheets for things. Eventually just ended up paying for Office Home and Student 2024 because Calc confused her. Though when I helped her install Office, I did notice that she hadn’t updated LibreOffice in over two years. Wish I had noticed before she paid for Office to see if the updates for Calc might have fixed her issue. Also wish I had installed OnlyOffice to see if it might have matched the “feel” of Excel better before giving MS money.
It’s shockingly similar in a lot of ways. Just barely different enough to not get sued, I’d imagine.
MS also has broken and depreciated a lot of Excel’s functionality, yet it’s still the standard. People just hate change, especially the ones that aren’t actually using the product directly.
I fucking hate that it is named calc and it’s 50/50 if it orders itself above the calculator when I search for it.
I imagine it’d be easy to override the system .desktop file with your own with whatever name you’d like to give it
I agree but I just type calcu and that narrows it. Or if the calculator is a common thing to run, either a keyboard shortcut or taskbar.
Sadly I have to agree. Being able to take my excel work home with me, where I use Linux exclusively, is the sole reason that I’m forced to use OnlyOffice vs LibreOffice. It has better compatibility with Excel by a WIDE margin.
That being said, I don’t have the issue with OnlyOffice that others seem to have. It’s desktop app is still OpenSource, it’s just the online bits and collaboration stuff that isn’t. But I’d still rather go with a non-profit like the Document Foundation than a for profit company any day of the week.
It’s all Visual Basic compatibility. Many companies use macros and programs written in Visual Basic inside Excel. As long as they continue using Visual Basic, they will continue using Excel.
LibreOffice also has LibreOffice Basic, but Visual Basic is definitely easier to find help for online.