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by _coldfire 3436 days ago
I've seen a few companies using google docs because no one knew excel also has a collaborative spreadsheet mode. All had MSoffice.

Last place had about 60 users. Average load time for the gdocs page is ~90 seconds. Users access the page dozens of times a day, most leave it open as a tab but memory usage became an issue.

Ever-increasing spreadsheet size eventually meant multiple computers were crashing/becoming unusable with the sheet open.

I offered to migrate it to Excel/VBA, was an old tiny codebase for simple calculations. Management bought more RAM instead, made me laugh.

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> Excel/VBA

I don't believe this works on the mac; has this changed?

There's MSoffice for mac, haven't used it but it certainly exists. Unless you mean VBA? Don't see why they'd sell office without macros.