• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    LOL, Excel doesn’t mangle shit. It’s best-in-class spreadsheet software for a dozen reasons. #1 being that it never changes. It’s solid, no other software like it. Business won’t risk fucking around with anything else.

    SOURCE: Sysadmin for several companies, and one that mainly used Google for Business. Accounting still had to have Excel.

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      6 hours ago

      SOURCE: Sysadmin for several companies,

      So, not actually an Excel power user then.

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        6 hours ago

        Well, no? It would be ridiculous to expect me to be a power user over all the software I’ve administrated. I judge what people need according to business demands and orders from on high. My judgement is that, yes, some business units require Excel.

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          2 hours ago

          That’s not what the claim was though, was it. Someone said Excel also mangles files and your counter seems to be that no it doesn’t because you’ve got users who use it. But the one thing does not automatically follow from the other.