Microsoft Office is also strong. It is still the standard in most contexts and they are just very good.
And while the libre alternatives are all excellent there is tiny points of friction, especially when collaborating with MS Office users and they make non MS Office users not want to switch.
Unless half of your coworkers are on Mac then it’s terrible and fails to sync all the time so they go behind your back and start using Google docs with their Gmail.
Yeah I agree there are weird inconsistencies between formulas in Excel, Libre office and Google Sheets. In Excel Concat and concatenate are the same while in google sheets Concat only works for two strings and concatenante is more than two. In Excel other sheet cells are references like Sheet2!A1 but in Libre Office it’s Sheet2.A1 like why??
Most MS office application use can work through browser under linux now…
For my purposes, the only time I’ve had to dust off Windows native Office has been dealing with some of the more “weird” features of presentations that people ask me to work on that aren’t handled in the browser version, and my general feedback is that those features are a bad idea in general and should be avoided.
I wager there’s also some Excel things that might not work in the Web version, but I don’t go that hard with Excel anyway.
Microsoft Office is also strong. It is still the standard in most contexts and they are just very good.
And while the libre alternatives are all excellent there is tiny points of friction, especially when collaborating with MS Office users and they make non MS Office users not want to switch.
In the corpo world, office integration with OneDrive and Teams is pretty nice too.
Unless half of your coworkers are on Mac then it’s terrible and fails to sync all the time so they go behind your back and start using Google docs with their Gmail.
Yeah I agree there are weird inconsistencies between formulas in Excel, Libre office and Google Sheets. In Excel Concat and concatenate are the same while in google sheets Concat only works for two strings and concatenante is more than two. In Excel other sheet cells are references like Sheet2!A1 but in Libre Office it’s Sheet2.A1 like why??
Most MS office application use can work through browser under linux now…
For my purposes, the only time I’ve had to dust off Windows native Office has been dealing with some of the more “weird” features of presentations that people ask me to work on that aren’t handled in the browser version, and my general feedback is that those features are a bad idea in general and should be avoided.
I wager there’s also some Excel things that might not work in the Web version, but I don’t go that hard with Excel anyway.
No. All you have to do is say “we don’t accept files from product X. Please submit in one of the following formats/from the following products.”
I’m serious. This works. It’s worked for me for DECADES. If you want to do business with me, you’re doing it on my terms.
Unless you are an employee, student, petitioner or in one of a hundred other situations where you have to follow rules set by someone else.