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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Does liber office make .docx files and export to pdf?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Does liber office make .docx files and export to pdf?

It does. It's fine as a replacement for Word, but no one has an answer for Excel. LibreOffice Calc is fine for a basic spreadsheet, but Excel is in a completely different universe than Calc with anything beyond that.

To be fair though, Excel is in a completely different universe than literally any other competing product.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think calc is fine for a lot of use cases. I use it all the time. It is different though.

For advanced stuff I’d rather use Python anyway to be honest.

[–] fartsparkles 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excel has built-in Python support now. I wish I was joking.

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

Yes… processed on the cloud. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you know how both of those compare with Google Sheets?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sheets is capable enough for the average person but a business is always going to want to use Excel because it's the industry standard.

I can't remember the last time I actually needed a spreadsheet for anything other than looking at a bunch of tabular data, but I'm a programmer so I'm not the standard spreadsheet user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are an accountant, then it’s your beast of burden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Accountant here. I prefer libreoffice calc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a programmer so I'm not the standard spreadsheet user.

But then what do you use for database???

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then what do you use for database???

Probably a database.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

JSON files that get committed to a git repo, obviously. They're in a private repository in GitHub so that takes care of security and resiliency, two birds with one stone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

At first I was certain this was going to be sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks for your reply!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing compares to excel. There are spreadsheets, and there is excel. The world runs on excel, and for a damn good reason. Also, excel runs the world, literally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So you’re telling me that Excel is very good at stuff?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just use SQL. Even SQLite.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It wouldn't be as good as everyone says if it didn't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yes, and recent versions of MS Word can also read odt, so no need for docx just to work with Word users.