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Does liber office make .docx files and export to pdf?

It does. It’s fine as a replacement for Word, but no one has an answer for Excel. LibreOffice Calc is fine for a basic spreadsheet, but Excel is in a completely different universe than Calc with anything beyond that.

To be fair though, Excel is in a completely different universe than literally any other competing product.

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I think calc is fine for a lot of use cases. I use it all the time. It is different though.

For advanced stuff I’d rather use Python anyway to be honest.

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Excel has built-in Python support now. I wish I was joking.

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Yes… processed on the cloud. Lol.

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Do you know how both of those compare with Google Sheets?

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Sheets is capable enough for the average person but a business is always going to want to use Excel because it’s the industry standard.

I can’t remember the last time I actually needed a spreadsheet for anything other than looking at a bunch of tabular data, but I’m a programmer so I’m not the standard spreadsheet user.

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I’m a programmer so I’m not the standard spreadsheet user.

But then what do you use for database???

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If you are an accountant, then it’s your beast of burden.

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Gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks for your reply!

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Nothing compares to excel. There are spreadsheets, and there is excel. The world runs on excel, and for a damn good reason. Also, excel runs the world, literally.

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So you’re telling me that Excel is very good at stuff?

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Just use SQL. Even SQLite.

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