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What can be a good alternative for Excel that works on Linux? Currently I need to use VBA, Solver, Analysis Toolpak charts. Moreover the alternative should read xls and xlsx files. Doesn't need to be free or open source.

Any recommendations? Thank you.

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[โ€“] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

LibreOffice. FOSS alternative.

[โ€“] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is the obvious choice but I heard from accountants it can't replace excel yet entirely.

Isn't that more a case of them not knowing how it works or how to make new formulas etc, because they were all written by a guy called Tony who left the company in 2002, and everyone's been just using his templates and copy-and-pasting since?

[โ€“] bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Those accountants are using excel like an infrastructure and they are not to be trusted. The only thing excel can do that libreoffice can't do is create a nightmare web of interdependent spreadsheets.