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by howlingfantods 3724 days ago
Sheets is definitely usable but it's a bit light on functionality. I'm using the new Excel for Mac right now and it's just very slow and buggy. Also, the aforementioned alt-key shortcut is absent in the Mac version. Not having these shortcuts literally adds hours to my workday.

I'd probably pay 300-400 dollars for an Excel alternative with full keyboard shortcuts.
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coldtea 3724 days ago
>and it's just very slow and buggy.

I've been using it for months with large-ish sheets (e.g. 10-20MB) but have neither seen it to be slow nor buggy.

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nodesocket 3724 days ago
And you've tried Mac Numbers (http://www.apple.com/mac/numbers/) right?
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howlingfantods 3724 days ago
I tried it many years ago and it was lacking features like pivot tables and scripting. Overall, I got the impression that numbers was more consumer than professional oriented. Haven't used it recently though.
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