I use Google Docs virtually every day, and I'm no power user.
But I know real Office power users in corporate settings. They'd point and laugh. Meanwhile, I'm beating my head against a wall trying to get Google Docs to handle nested lists and tables adequately. It's a crap product, a toy, at least by enterprise standards.
But I know real Office power users in corporate settings. They'd point and laugh.
Does this emperor ever wear clothes? I've heard about these people, only to discover they were "masters" of some truly suboptimal tasks like "track changes" or "paragraph styles".
I'm sure there are some wonderful things Excel does that Sheets doesn't, but since I haven't noticed them they don't bother me. One thing that I don't miss about Excel is the 2^16 row limit. Also I seem to recall some difficulties copying and pasting pivot tables, but it's been a few years...
Try it again - it got a major upgrade a while back and it now does everything I ask of it. Including my company's accounts, which have to handle four different currencies and tax reporting regimes. There is a nice python library that allows a script to suck data from our 12 bank accounts daily, do most classification, and update the sheets directly.
They'll be replaced by people who know Python, r. Excel is powerful, but those spreadsheets are difficult to maintain cheaply. It's like coding without any refactoring tools.
The true skill is organization, imho. Power users are replaceable as tech advances.
Not for nothing but the only thing I use Word for on a regular basis is contracts. Track changes may be sub-optimal but its a critical tool in this use case.
IANAL. Every time I've been part of a distributed group that has tried to use track changes, we have given up. In some cases that means "keep the language in git and dump it into word (or preferably, pdf) when you absolutely have to", and in others it means "Joe has the master; send him your changes in 'change the first sentence of the fourth paragraph to the following...' form".
But I know real Office power users in corporate settings. They'd point and laugh. Meanwhile, I'm beating my head against a wall trying to get Google Docs to handle nested lists and tables adequately. It's a crap product, a toy, at least by enterprise standards.
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