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From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Org-mode <Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:55:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69f2606a-105d-75e8-61aa-e4df82c9f445@grinta.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X+ozoNrCkJybMus5@protected.rcdrun.com>

On 28/12/2020 20:36, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2020-12-28 18:19]:
>> Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly
>> from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of
>> orgmode?
> 
> You have high expectations but Emacs Org mode does not nearly replace
> the capabilities of a dedicated spreadsheet.
> 
> In comparison to all major known spreadsheets Org tables is not
> powerful and not even comparable.

Without specific details on which functionalities are not supported in
Org tables, this advice is not useful.

There are many use cases in which Org tables are superiors to
spreadsheets, there are use cases where a dedicated spreadsheet
application works better, and there are use cases where a spreadsheet is
an horrible solution but whoever found themselves solving the problem
didn't know better and hammered around till they got a spreadsheet to
output what they wanted.

In my personal experience, in the 80% of the cases where a spreadsheet
has been used, it was the wrong tool for the job.

Without knowing what is the problem at hand, it is impossible to know
which solution is the more appropriate.

Cheers,
Dan


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-28 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-28 15:18 Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-28 16:21 ` Daniel Martín
2020-12-28 16:51   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-28 17:39   ` Filipp Gunbin
2020-12-28 19:47   ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 21:06     ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-29  7:32       ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 15:36         ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-28 19:36 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 19:55   ` Daniele Nicolodi [this message]
2020-12-28 20:37     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 11:51       ` Stefan Nobis
2020-12-29 13:41         ` Eric S Fraga
2020-12-30 22:19         ` Jean Louis
2020-12-31 12:17           ` Stefan Nobis
2021-01-02  0:48             ` Samuel Wales
2020-12-29  0:06   ` andres.ramirez
2020-12-29  2:29     ` Carson Chittom
2020-12-28 20:12 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-29 10:07   ` Eric S Fraga
2020-12-29  4:02 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-29  4:53   ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-29  7:49     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 14:47       ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-29 14:59         ` Greg Minshall
2020-12-29 15:34         ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 17:54         ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-29 23:39           ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-30  3:06             ` Robert Thorpe
2021-01-08 14:07         ` H. Dieter Wilhelm

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