As somebody who works as an accountant: The web version of Excel is shit and the desktop version is far superior.
Things like extensions, power query among other things just exist in the desktop app and not in the web app.
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hayvan@feddit.nl 3 days agoI obviously don’t know her exact needs but so much can be achieved by web versions of Office and Outlook that I didn’t have issues working with MS-using clients.
Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 3 days ago
hayvan@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Fair, my own needs on spreadsheets were are formulas and enumerations, I can’t comment on more advanced uses.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Neither web versions nor LibreOffice can satisfy the needs of a true Excel power user. Also, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint and multi-account Outlook access are all problematic unless you are using the native clients.
blindsight@beehaw.org 3 days ago
You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just just different browser profiles?
That said, the Outlook application is necessary for lots of things, like saving email files (record keeping) and mail merges, but the number of accounts has never been a problem for me. I have 9 active email accounts spread across different platforms, and I use web apps (by choice l for all of them, aside from popping Outlook open for the aforementioned mail merges and digital record keeping for email files.
But absolutely true for Excel. It frustrates me so much when I’m stuck on a computer with even slightly outdated versions of the Excel application. SORT, FILTER, TEXTSPLIT, and so many other functions are so much simpler than the many workarounds I used to kludge together.
But fuck Teams. The web application is just as garbage as the web app. Those two fail/crash teen times more than all the other apps on my computer *combined". It must be vibe coded, bolted together, janky, spaghetti code.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
She has almost a dozen active clients at the moment. Browser tabs for Outlook doesn’t not help her organize them.