Comment by steve1977
2 days ago
The selling point of Excel is not the feature set, it's that people know Excel and are usually very resistant to learning something new.
2 days ago
The selling point of Excel is not the feature set, it's that people know Excel and are usually very resistant to learning something new.
As someone who’s compared spreadsheet feature sets, though: it’s also very much the feature set.
Well, in a way it is of course, because if your reference is Excel, then you want the feature set of Excel.
Or what specifically do you mean?
Sheets and Numbers are spreadsheets. Excel is an application platform and programming language that’s convinced people it’s just a spreadsheet.
VBA, PowerQuery, structured references, the newer formulae like XLOOKUP, dynamic array-spill formulae, map/filter/reduce/lambda, various obscure financial stuff.
Sheets and Calc don't have these.
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