Re: """Standard""" software (was: Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon)

On 2026-06-27, Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2026-06-27 18:22:31 +0000, Charlie Gibbs said:
>
>> In fact, I prefer LibreOffice's spreadsheet to Excel, primarily because 
>> when I pull in a CSV file it automatically sets the column widths to 
>> something reasonable, rather than requiring you to manually select the 
>> hilariously-misnamed "Auto format".
>
> Column widths are easily fixed quickly in Excel. Just click in the 
> corner "cell" above the row numbers and left of the column letters to 
> select the entire spreadsheet, then double-click the divider between 
> any column.

Quickly?  That sound pretty laborious to me, especially if there
are a lot of columns that need adjusting.  If I'm forced to deal
with Excel in this situation, I select the entire spreadsheet and
then use the above-mentioned "Auto format".  LibreOffice gets it
right in the first place - no manual adjustments required.

> Similarly for row heights, although you may need to turn on the 
> text-wrapping for all the cells first.
>
> The biggest issue with Excel is that it is simply not accurate, and 
> therefore untrustworthy. Because Microsoft stubbornly chose to do 
> decimal arithmatic in stupid way, that they claim is a "feature", it 
> means miniscule errors creep in, which can then get bigger when using 
> those error cells in other calculations. No other spreadsheet (or 
> database) that I've used has had this problem because they do decimal 
> arithmatic properly.

Was Excel the one that thinks 1900 is a leap year?  Or was that
some other M$ program?  I once wound up with a lot of dates that
were a day off thanks to that one, whichever program did it.

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