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And Sheets isn't aimed at Excel power users. It's just that Excel is seen as a niche tool in the same way Photoshop or a programming IDE would be. I think that's fairly reasonable.


I consider things like pivot tables to be more mainstream and not relegated to just power users.

So the statement I responded to:

>"Anything that you'd normally do in Office is done on Google for Work at Google."

...is just not accurate. Not to mention other super basic things like a lot of the formatting options, etc. Those most certainly are basic user needs, and you can't do half the formatting things you can do in Excel.




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