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> Excel is ubiquitous in almost every workplaces

Only in workplaces which use Windows. But granted, that's the large majority of them.

> so I can use the same workflows and templates

LibreOffice Calc opens Excel files well enough.

> and don’t have to raise a request to install some new app

It's not "some" new app. It has an estimated 200 Million users worldwide, and is probably the most popular FOSS application after browsers.




Most Apple-centric enterprise workplaces use Office. With the exception of some features that are specific to O365-specific licenses, it has feature parity with the Windows version.

LivreOffice does not do PowerQuery, and while it ‘opens Excel files well enough’, it probably only has 70% feature parity at most.

They themselves claim that it has ‘tens of millions of users’…

I’m not saying it’s a bad - or new - product. It’s just yet another customer requesting to install something. Very, very few (exactly zero) workplaces I have visited in Oceania and South East Asia are using it.




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