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Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Excel bloat has gotten so bad I learned Python because I was sick of trying to come up with workarounds to make Excel handle moderately sized datasets without crashing. Now I just write python scripts to do anything I need and if I need to show my work to someone who doesn't use Python I just export my data to Excel and copy over the last few steps in Excel to show how it works. It's still faster than doing everything in Excel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ok but you could also try LibreOffice, its probably much faster than microsofts office.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/

At least on my Linux machine, it starts quick and does what I need.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah sure let me get my Fortune 500 employer to switch over to libreoffice that's a solution.

But seriously though libreoffice is okay if you're doing very basic stuff, but it's even jankier than Excel in the circumstances I described minus the background usage just from opening the app.