Sheets or Excel?

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What do you prefer? Sheets or Excel?

I prefer excel given the ease with which it can be used independent of a stable internet connection. But having a hard time convincing all my colleagues to move to excel from sheets. So spend time juggling between the two. What are your thoughts?

Wajiha Haider · Accepted Answer

I think I spent most of my time on Sheets when I started my professional career - but indeed excel has a lot of other functionality and leverage as it is not dependent on internet availability.

I prefer Sheets - better shareability and features that they have built lately.

Gautam Srivastava · Answer

Definitely sheets for me!

The Mac version of Excel is very different from the one on Windows machine - the shortcuts which made Excel sublime don't exist on MacOS.

BiglySales · Answer

Excel 100%!!!

Mubeen Masudi · Answer

@sariah_mansoor1 Yes that seems to be the consensus. When it comes to sharing basic data sets with the team - sheets is definitely better. However, when it comes to some extensive analytics on the data I prefer excel as it is more modular.

Mubeen Masudi · Answer

Oh, no wonder. Most of my colleagues are on MacOS.

Pavel Kukhnavets · Answer

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Sandra Djajic · Answer

I don't like either but if i have to choose, Excel wins by far :D

Lokesh Joshi · Answer

Definitely Google sheet for me.

Utkarsh Gupta · Answer

Google sheet it is, for me!

Simply typing sheets.new opens a new google sheet and you can get started almost instantly.

However, I still desire a bunch of features that Excel has like amazing shortcuts and a simple way to construct macros and build heavy-duty applications.

Madeleine Nichols · Answer

for collaboration and version control, sheets comes out on top for me

Deniz Can Ilgın · Answer

for lightweight solutions; Google Sheets.
for lifetime solutions; Microsoft Excel.

what happens in the near future, I don't know but it is like that for me for now.

Sariah Mansoor · Answer

Sheets for me! I find it more convenient to use especially for collaboration and sharing with the team.

Aparajita Kar · Answer

It's Sheets for me!

While I know Excel has more features than Sheets, I find that Sheets is a much better fit for team collaborations. Plus, since it's cloud-based, I can access my spreadsheets from anywhere.

Deivid Colkevicius · Answer

Depends on your device. No question that in general Excel is superior...But sadly if you use a mac that's not the case as Microsoft doesn't seem bothered making an equal mac version. So in my opinion sheets is the better option for Mac users.

If only Apple actually cared about Numbers...they could easily create an awesome competitor to Excel and Sheets, however their target market is mainly creatives and not number crunchers.

Not complaining as myself I'm a creative and would never leave the apple ecosystem (I don't think people realise how life changing things like airdrop are).

But it would be nice to see Apple push some attention and passion into their own version of excel....

Mubeen Masudi · Answer

@sandradjajic haha. Team excel!

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