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In alt.comp.os.windows-11 rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 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. 

What do you use to edit/create documents and spreadsheets with others?


> 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.

I'm surprised you don't do any documents. I have been using word 
processors since I was in elementary with Apple 2's AppleWorks.

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