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I'm so used to libreoffice that I don't understand excel that well anymore. But there was a pretty steep learning curve to get there, months.
I use it too and it's fully sufficient for my amateur tasks (functions to calculate things, conditional highlighting, etc), but the people who say there may be compatibility issues have a point. I remember files saved in the MS apps or vice versa not having the same like breaks, margins, or whatever it was that caused some content to not be on the same page as on the origin system.
Yeah, for MSO compatibility, OnlyOffice is a much better option, with some caveats.
Librecalc isn't that great and has some compatibility issues. Excel is the industry standard.
What exactly are you doing on Excel that Calc does significantly worse?
Graphs.
Both softwares have graphs. You'll need to be more specific than that, to help us understand.
Yes, the graphs I make are extremely specific and their look and feel is very relevant. The possibilities for graph customization on both google sheets and libreoffice are both more limited.
Excel is proprietary software made by a company that achieved monopoly status by intentionally designing “compatibility issues” into its products. If you’re telling me you have a business need to use the Microsoft Windows desktop version of Excel specifically and nothing else will do, then throw your PC in the garbage and pay whatever tithe Microsoft tells you to pay. Or more specifically, have your employer do that if it’s their decision anyway.
Thanks for your useful advice.
happy to help