Post #3331875

2026-06-16 09:02 UTC

I understand for home use calc, especially, works just fine, but I have to deal with editing excel files at work daily… I can’t even run VBA’s. And if I save the file in calc it gets messed up. The issue is the same as always, that some guy used excel first, and now I have to use it too otherwise I need to redo the entire excel file. I can’t be bothered.

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@nerv@fedinsfw.app 2026-06-16 09:58

The company I work for pays horrors for the full MS suite. That alone should be enough to force some thinking. But I digress. I’m not a desk jokey but I have to fill a sheet daily and occasionally a few other documents. I only use LibreOffice. When I first received the models, they’re were filled with errors and bad formatting. And printing the sheet always put out shrunk version of the document, hard to read. I got printed copies along with the digital files, “in case I couldn’t open the files”. My spreadsheet jailbroke the document, allowing me to rectify the errors and the prints come out using the entire sheet, with better end results than the official version. Someone, very well paid, is wasting a lot of money.

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@ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2026-06-16 14:15

Yeah, LO equivalent is to use python inside calc but you can use python outside of Excel just as easily so there’s no reason for people to switch from what they currently have.

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@oatscoop@midwest.social 2026-06-16 15:09

It’s a compatibility issue. Calc will do nearly everything Exel will: but “LibreOffice Basic” is significantly different from MS Visual Basic. And the API for interacting with other programs in their ecosystems is almost entirely different.

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