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gruseom on Feb 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft’s Biggest Miss

I work with people who use Excel 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. There is no competitor to that product. Google Docs doesn't even scratch the surface.

In your experience, what are the most important things that Excel does that no one else does (or does well)?

twerquie on Feb 17, 2012 [–]

Pivot tables (though I believe Google Docs has added this to some degree), the ability to cleanly import messy text data, the ability to select non-contiguous cells, keyboard short cuts, better charts, spell check. I'm sure there are a million more - Excel is actually a very impressive product.

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