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Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: 29 Dec 2024 00:32:02 GMT
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On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:07:39 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

> Yeah, it sometimes pains me that it is brought up as often as it is as
> some sort of must-have piece of software. It suggests that people don't
> do much other than open up Word and Excel.

I'm the minority report. I have never used Office. I have no need for it 
in my personal life and the company never installed it on the programming 
machines. If we get RFPs or other documents in docx or xlsx we use 
LibreOffice. For me, that's a read-only thing since my attempts to edit 
anything were disasters. 

The first speadsheet I encountered was SuperCalc that was bundled on the 
Osborne 1 CP/M machine in '81. I never figured out how to use it or what 
it was good for. 40 years later I've never created any document with Excel 
or any other spreadsheet. The closest I've come is I'm told the Power BI 
queries are based on Excel's. Even then I was mining a SQL Server 
database, not anything created in Excel.

Office sofware in general is a whole other world for me. People are 
welcome to it but saying you must only do simple programming because you 
can't write a VBA script for Office is beyond sheer ignorance.