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dfsegoat on Dec 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS Single Sign-On

Sheets... I just.. I can't.

I was a business analyst (excel grunt) for 2+ years in a biotech startup. Sheets is just different in enough ways to positively irk even the "casual power user" of Excel, IMO.

petepete on Dec 13, 2017 [–]

Sheets isn't meant to make Excel power users happy. Nothing can without being a shameless clone.

It's for the other 97%. A list here; a table and a chart there. Now to make it look pretty.

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