LibreOffice Calc. I think it still has some performance issues vs Excel with extremely large files, and it can only do 1024 columns. Also LibreOffice Basic can do a lot of what VBA could but the syntax is different and I don’t think it integrates well with the rest of the system like VBA’s COM integration (as unsafe as that was)
If you aren’t pushing Excel to its absolute limits then it’s more than enough.
What about tables, pivot tables, power query, grouping of rows and columns , and how is formula/function parity (xlookup, index, match, sumproduct, etc)?
I’ve made some truly Frankenstein sheets that I’m not sure could be stitched together elsewhere.
LibreOffice Calc. I think it still has some performance issues vs Excel with extremely large files, and it can only do 1024 columns. Also LibreOffice Basic can do a lot of what VBA could but the syntax is different and I don’t think it integrates well with the rest of the system like VBA’s COM integration (as unsafe as that was)
If you aren’t pushing Excel to its absolute limits then it’s more than enough.
What about tables, pivot tables, power query, grouping of rows and columns , and how is formula/function parity (xlookup, index, match, sumproduct, etc)?
I’ve made some truly Frankenstein sheets that I’m not sure could be stitched together elsewhere.
I am having vague nightmares of the Momte Carlo and Black Scholes sheets we would have to compile for financial engineering classes in college…
I don’t have any issues. It’s free to download to any operating system. So give it a try. See if it can open your existing Excel spreadsheets