[xcambar]

My current employer is a juggernaut (10k+ employees worldwide). I've had that discussion, and among answers I've received, the most prominent were:

* compatibility with external docs (incoming) and external systems (outgoing)

* the whole Office365 suite provides sharing out of the box

* preexisting knowledge of the Office suite

* Excel is just better

It looks like the most unfair advantage of Office is that it is already everywhere.

[2Gkashmiri]

I often had compatibility bugs with excel files around 2-3 years ago. What would happen is, I see a visual bug for example and the next update often fixed it.

For the last year or so I have switched completely to LO which has been a little rough but not difficult.

Calc has native =regex which is a killer feature

[fartcannon]

And you can script it with python.. which is just incredible.

[buovjaga]

Docs for getting started with Python, in case someone is interested:

https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/python/ma...

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Python_Guide

The macro team has really been killing it on the docs front as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/28/libreoff...

LibreOffice 7.2 now offers the new ScriptForge library for Python: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03...

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2#The_Scr...