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brin_bellway) wrote2020-07-10 10:41 am
brin_bellway) wrote2020-07-10 10:41 am
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Originally "switch from Google Sheets to something non-cloud-dependant and open-source" was much lower on the to-do list, but yesterday the ability to copy Google Sheets cells (extremely important for my playflow!) glitched out on Firefox and gave me an impetus.
First I tried LibreOffice Calc, and after all my good experiences with LibreOffice Writer was unpleasantly surprised by how terrible Calc was. Basic actions I perform all the time, like "sort the entire sheet, except the first row, by the values in this column", were somewhere between difficult and impossible.
But *Gnumeric* seems to be a much better fit! The Google Sheets exports needed a *couple* tweaks to their formatting (mostly the colour-coding) to display properly, but it mostly worked out of the box and anyway those tweaks *could be made*, and unlike LibreOffice Calc I can sort my Flight Rising inventory spreadsheets by whatever aspect I want without having to press several buttons each time nor accept that the row of labels won't be at the top anymore. And I can copy the cells, of course. And it seems to consume less RAM than Google Sheets, too.
I won't consider Gnumeric fully tested until I've used it to make an annual household-finance report, but so far I'm very happy with it. And it feels pleasantly ego-syntonic to have taken control of my own spreadsheets.
First I tried LibreOffice Calc, and after all my good experiences with LibreOffice Writer was unpleasantly surprised by how terrible Calc was. Basic actions I perform all the time, like "sort the entire sheet, except the first row, by the values in this column", were somewhere between difficult and impossible.
But *Gnumeric* seems to be a much better fit! The Google Sheets exports needed a *couple* tweaks to their formatting (mostly the colour-coding) to display properly, but it mostly worked out of the box and anyway those tweaks *could be made*, and unlike LibreOffice Calc I can sort my Flight Rising inventory spreadsheets by whatever aspect I want without having to press several buttons each time nor accept that the row of labels won't be at the top anymore. And I can copy the cells, of course. And it seems to consume less RAM than Google Sheets, too.
I won't consider Gnumeric fully tested until I've used it to make an annual household-finance report, but so far I'm very happy with it. And it feels pleasantly ego-syntonic to have taken control of my own spreadsheets.