alt Hacker NewsMay I ask for a few examples of things you do in Excel that don't have a replacement?
The vast majority of people I have seen using Excel don't know how to write a formula. Now they just started copy-pasting whatever ChatGPT was telling them to copy-paste, but well... and anyway all the alternatives do support formulas of course.
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ghaff • yesterday at 9:43 PM
It's been years since I've really tried to exercise Excel (and haven't used it--or Libre Office--in a long time). Pivot tables, a number of the other data-related functions... Just a bunch of things I'm not going to spend a couple of days digging into. Google Workspace works fine for my needs.
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There are plenty of functional replacements. However there are zero replacements that emulate the same keystrokes and keyboard shortcuts and all other aspects of hard-won muscle memory like function names and quirks of behavior.