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Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations (www.osnews.com)
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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I think Excel has more functionality than any of the FOSS alternatives, unfortunately. It's some pretty powerful software.

[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

But I've also run into cases where LibreOffice could do things Excel couldn't at the time.
Like enter strings that are longer than 255 characters into a cell.

[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 6 points 17 hours ago

Yeah a lot more, 90% won't miss any of though.