I’d argue Excel is really the only USP of MS office anymore. For better or worse a lot of business runs on it; often in place of proper databases because their IT provisions are so disorganised, dirty excel “databases” are the quick way to do stuff that don’t involve months of sanctioning IT budgets… recent experience with a particular outsourcing outfit has not exactly gone well. (find me one that has?)
Although for the love of $deity, IT, please install the damn 64-bit version. 32 bit is so 20th century now.
Libre has saved many a corrupt excel “database” that office were unable to recover. It’s functionality is probably a few years behind MS in some areas but, it is if we are honest more than adequate for most needs. If you’re in the space of writing complex applications in excel; really, you should be writing them in something else entirely. Good luck to anyone trying to reinvent how business is done!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
