loren ,
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Is there a spreadsheet program that’s not excel or libreoffice that isn’t terrible?

rmflight ,
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@loren depending on whether you need to edit actual Excel files, or just text delimited files, Modern CSV might be an option??

https://www.moderncsv.com/

loren OP ,
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@rmflight oh wow this looks cool thank you! Where was this when I was doing data work lmao

rmflight ,
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@loren I know right? For just working with delimited data, it looks rather nice.

loren OP ,
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@rmflight yeah excel never was a good option for it, something like this seems ideal. I’m definitely going to give it a try

mosttoast ,
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@loren i haven't used it, but maybe onlyoffice? it seems like it's well funded and open. No idea about feature parity with excel.

loren OP ,
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@mosttoast I’ll check it out thanks!

ashinonyx ,
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@loren I’ve seen Modern CSV recommended but haven’t tried it yet https://www.moderncsv.com/

loren OP ,
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@ashinonyx yes! Someone else just mentioned that it looks really cool I’m gunna give it whirl later

loren OP ,
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I just want that version of excel before they fucked it up back tbh lol

amytabb ,
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@loren
"Excel circa 1997"
does few things

but

does them reliably

loren OP ,
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@amytabb exactly lmao. Like don’t autocorrect everything to a date please??

amytabb ,
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@loren YES

I don't need autocomplete, or correct grammar, or autocaptalization (this is my most recent fight in libreoffice) or whatever. It is a spreadsheet, not a novel.

loren OP ,
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@amytabb yeah I feel like libreoffice has recently started doing more of this stuff and I’m not happy with it. Like I cannot get it to save files how I want them and I’m annoyed so looking elsewhere haha

amytabb ,
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@loren These should* be a way to use old versions, especially of libreoffice. I'll plan to look into this. I don't use spreadsheets very often, but it felt a lot easier in the past, and then recently I have had more fights. hmmmm.

*it may take quite a while for me to look into this.

loren OP ,
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@amytabb yeah that would make sense. Just got two promising recommendations so I’m going to look into those. I don’t do too much either but been doing a bit more lately and want something that just works lol

amytabb ,
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@loren Wow looking at the replies --- Modern CSV is awesome. It does exactly what I want without the junk.

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