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Instead one only needs to worry that one can’t get one’s work done.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a time when I wanted to use a spreadsheet for anything moderately complicated where gsheets was up to snuff. That’s not to say that excel doesn’t have problems or does things easily, but it doesn’t lead to quite the same level of frustration and hair-pulling, and indeed it’s usually possible to achieve things in excel when they are impossible in gsheets. Indeed that app even struggles at the ‘easy’ task of being able to fiddle around with table formatting. Its sole advantage is the collaboration. It can be used as a place to dump small amounts of varied tabular data to share but not really for calculation or analysis.




As far as competing anecdata, I found gsheets absolutely much better for joining together multiple sheets of data. The lookups are so much less touchy simply because "it's all in the cloud" (as long as you have permissions).

With Excel you have to ensure the file is there, and readable, not tampered with, etc.

This allowed us to create better multi-workbook "apps" that have a bit more modularity - you could even embed sheets into a webpage as a view-only client.

In the end, Excel is good for us only for interoperability with external groups.


I have. Especially before Excel released their dynamic array features. I love the sort function in gsheets. Combined with filters it allowed me to automate things that relied on vba in Excel.


Google Sheets has more useful formulas than Excel. For example query(), but also all the array formulas that they include.




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