Which version of Excel would you recommend getting...

what a fucking trooper.
Used matlab at uni. had fucking nightmares learning the basics...was pretty proficient after a while

Libreoffice

>2018
>not using G suite

google literally offers all of these productivity tools for free.

Office > G suite

OpenOffice Calc

I prefer using an abacus

>for free
If you use Google for anything non-trivial you are probably giving them the data they'll use to train AI to replace you.

that's a weird way to spell libreoffice

I use openoffice, I don't know if libre is better.

Thanks

It just seems very interesting. I like mapping out data. I use openoffice now, and it doesn't have some functionalities I would like

since your excel skills are probably near 0 it really doesnt matter at all

besides that the newest version of excel works pretty nicely for me and i do a lot of coding in it as part of my Job

if you dont want the newest one just make sure to get a Version that uses the new file formats (xlsx, xlsm) avoid the old xls format

Matlab is the most horrific programming language known to man. I’m literally a software developer and won’t touch that shit with a 10 foot pole ever again

some people nNeed to use a spreadsheet for more than adding sums you Plebs

libre and open office are just absolute garbage compared to excel. not even remotely usable if you have just any requirements

I was OP in , lately I became very aware of this too. I always used openoffice, but when I watched some youtube videos with serious excel wizardry I realized I'm comparing a hatchet to a chainsaw here

i was shocked aswell when i found out what a goliath of a program excel actually is

excel is just one hell of a good program from microsoft

but in the end most people are fine with the fakes since they wont need the depth and only the basics

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just learn a language good for simple scripts like python, excel is for kids

I use 2007 as a sound editor/engineer. It's industry standard.

The latest version (365) is pretty good, as long as you have windows 10. It's fast and stable.
T. scientist who deals with huge datasets.

>Libreoffice
Only if you use Linux. Libreoffice on Windows doesn't function properly and it never will surpass Excel.

I have to use 2013 at the client's site, but I way prefer 2016 (work laptop and at home).

People think you can't use the forecast tool in 2013 but you can (because 2013 doesn't have a button for it);

=forecast()

Thanks for all the recommendations, I didn’t expect to get this many responses!