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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Paid for MS Excel out of the goodness of my heart so now I get this popup every 2 hours... (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

are you able to get your work done on other suites like LibreOffice / OnlyOffice, or does it require MS specific functionality?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Given that OP posted a Mac screenshot, Pages and Numbers would likely work just as well for the files themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

screenshot, Pages and Numbers would likely work

Terrible app names to be honest

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but for something that comes free with your Mac, they're not bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not free, complementary. The price of the computer covers it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hadn't noticed! Keen eye!

Design convergence across platforms has me fooled 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't speak for everyone but I rely heavily on VBA scripts, dozens of macros, PowerQuery for ETL, connection to azure SQL data, etc. If you work with big data excel is basically a must.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's fair enough