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Excel enters its 40th year (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol Google sheets has nowhere near the capabilities of Excel. They're not even in the same class.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Number of features that is has? Sure.

Number of features that I need? Google Sheets wins.

As I use Excel at work, I'd be happy if you prove me wrong here. Just yesterday I needed to do a simple search/replace with regular expressions. My solution was to copy the data to Google Sheets.