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    Excel Online vs Google Sheets

    Hi,

    what is better?

    In google sheets i can do everything using API and JAvaScript but Microsoft has also way to work through API and JS:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...view=office-js

    I am wondering where future is going.
    Now i am working on local Excel's file which have to been downloaded and using macros.

    Maybe next step should be going to cloud nad give users possibility to do all things on cloud.
    This is very interesting what are your experiences with this.

    Best,
    Jacek

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    Re: Excel Online vs Google Sheets

    It depends what you want to do. I've found that neither Google Sheets or Excel Online deal very well with large complex spreadsheet.

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    Re: Excel Online vs Google Sheets

    Limit sizes of course.

    thank you Kyle123,

    what about API and formulas, you can not do everything right now.
    Do you think that cloud will replace local Excel?

    Best,
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    Re: Excel Online vs Google Sheets

    Its swings and roundabouts, there were some very handy formulas in google sheets that automatically cooied down as data was added and formula filters that Excel had nothing like, however, as I understand it, these have been added to Excel 365. Sharing and collaborationis much better on the cloud though. You can still do more with excel desktop and as long as you need to work with large workbooks and need them to be fast, I can’t see how cloud would be better or quicker - and not for the foreseeable either.

    There are also things that can be done with VBA in excel that will never be doable on the cloud due to the permission architectures and that a browser is sandboxes.

    That said most people don’t have large workbooks and IME use Excel for making lists, for those people I’m sure that a web interface could quite easily replace a desktop application and that thud never notice the difference

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    Re: Excel Online vs Google Sheets

    thank you Kyle123 for you opinion.
    It is precious for me.

    Anybody else wants to say something?
    What is your opinion?

    Best,
    Jacek

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