Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel.
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Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the..

Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don’t give a fuck for life offtheline

  • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

    Oh those numbers? That is a date. I will delete the original numbers and replace it with something else. Good luck.

    Excel is one of those examples of a software that is only used everywhere because it used to be the best and it is overall not bad. So “everyone” already knows it and the incentive to move to something else is fairly small, because it would only be so much better. But still, why are they not developing it further? Completely crazy.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I feel like excel is still used everywhere because it’s the kind of Jack of all trades.

      There is a better alternative for all the applications excel is used for but no alternative that can do all at once.

      • Aatube@kbin.socialOP
        21·
        10 months ago

        LibreOffice? I mean some features are missing but I don’t see why you’d need them

        • barfplanet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Maybe it’s because I’m so accustomed to Excel, but Libreoffice Calc is so painful to use. Not the app that’s going to win people over.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Not developing it further? They are bound to their shortsightedly developed xlsx format and they need to make sure legacy stuff doesn’t break… However, the Win11-style redesign is a regression, and the Czech spell checker has been flagging a completely normal verb class as ancient for years, and the heavily-touted Web Sources cannot even parse JSON. They also keep adding shit like Online Images (with Bing), automatic image recognition that I imagine collects shitloads of AI training data and of course support links that only open in Edge even though it works no better than your default browser. I wonder where the prosecutors who brought M$ to court for bundling IE with W95 are today.

      • Aatube@kbin.socialOP
        2·
        10 months ago

        Unfortunately that case only ended in an order for Microsoft to share its API for at least 5 years and for the DOJ to have full access to MS stuff including source code during this time