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by freeAgent 411 days ago
The alternatives are honestly not as good.
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jeltz 411 days ago
Libreoffice has vastly superior CSV support compared to Microsoft office. The alternatives often have different strengths and weaknesses.
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freeAgent 411 days ago
I’ve never had a problem working with CSVs in Excel, but I’ll take your word for it. For text operations, I frequently find myself using Notepad++ anyway.
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jeltz 411 days ago
I had a colleague who did most of his work in Excel but used LibreCalc when he had to open a weird CSV and then cobtinued working in Excel.
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emeril 411 days ago
I've found not to trust excel for CSV's generally unless I build them manually in excel as a concatenation
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gopher_space 410 days ago
Notepad++ has no problem displaying characters like checkmarks that Excel will mangle.
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MarcelOlsz 411 days ago
Linear.app and it's not even close.
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codr7 411 days ago
Definitely has everything I need and then some, a breath of fresh air compared to Jira.
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freeAgent 411 days ago
It’s not an Excel alternative?
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MarcelOlsz 411 days ago
No it's a JIRA alternative.
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