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[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago

I could see why it has use for professional accounting esp. when live editing. LibreOffice still doesn't do live editing.

But what accounting do you do for your personal life itself that would require MS Excel? I'm asking since it's the topic of the post; buying MS Office pro with a laptop for home use.

sidenote, LibreOffice does have xlookuo and I've happily used it a number of times before, I thought it'd be nice to know

[-] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I use Dynamics365 as my accounting software to keep track of my own personal stuff, which is tied in pretty tightly with excel, I wouldn't be able to export anything without it. Actually I'm not even sure I'd be able to use it at all really. I also use Word more often than one would think, just for general around the house things. My investments too, like I use excel exports to do analysis on tables of data, stuff like regression and 50 day/200 day plotting, and general chart analysis. Probably could maybe get away with that on the free stuff, I'm not sure.

You don't need pro to do any of this. The normal Office Home license is sufficient. And for personal use, it would be a real son of a gun if you accidentally downloaded them off the office website and then went to https://massgrave.dev/ and by grave mistake typed in a few of those commands