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_dain_yesterday at 7:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

There are many features of Excel that LibreOffice Calc doesn't support. Most importantly: structured references, VBA, PowerQuery. Not to mention its UI is very laggy even on powerful machines.

For real financial/business work, Calc is just not a serious player.


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mixmastamykyesterday at 9:04 PM

I think there is a recent performance regression but hopefully will be fixed soon. Hasn't affected me. Learn Python, much better than VB.

mshroyeryesterday at 8:28 PM

I even had to switch my reading list spreadsheet over from LibreOffice to Excel when the former started seriously lagging with about 250 rows total