This guy broke up with Microsoft Excel to come to Google Sheets after a long time, and this is the reason

After a long time using Microsoft Excel, a hard-working Microsoft Office fan Dan Kopf thought he would never give up on Excel until he met and used Google Sheets.

Listen to Dan Kopf to share the reasons for giving up Microsoft Excel to switch to Google Sheets. ok

Dan Kopf first contacted Excel at a private school in high school. At that time, this student was amazed at the complex formulas and the ability to filter data on Excel. He had used Excel spreadsheets to perform great calculations to statistics baseball matches.

In college and after that, Dan Kopf was always attached to Excel. Even this spreadsheet program helped him get the first job of his life, an economic researcher. Thanks to it, he manipulated it more easily with a huge amount of data at work.

Dan Kop also contacted and tried some other statistical software like Stata, but after all Excel was always the first choice.

In 2006, Google Sheets was first released. Because Dan Kop was so satisfied with Excel, he only found that Sheets at that time imitated Excel's style blatantly.

However, his interest in Sheets has increased over the years because of the ability to share easily with its friends. Instead of having to send Excel files back and forth between friends and then generate dozens of different versions, with Sheets they can work on a spreadsheet at the same time.

However, Dan Kop still only uses Sheets for some basic tasks.

After many years of improvement, Sheets now has 432 functions, nearly equal to Excel with 477 functions. Sheets have been able to meet all the basic daily tasks of users. And the special feature makes Dan Kop completely change attitude towards Sheets is the power of Pivot Tables, a tool that allows users to split a large amount of data and summary statistics for many different groups. For example, with Pivot Tables, you can create an average salary table for men and women in different cities from a gender, city statistics and salary of different people.

Dan Kop noticed, after being updated in 2018, Pivot Tables on Sheets are easy to use and have a more intuitive interface than Excel. This is the first time, Dan Kop uses Sheets freely, without thinking about Excel. After that, he started introducing Sheets to his colleagues.

While 'love' with Sheets is getting bigger and bigger, Dan Kop has a serious error with Excel. Starting at the end of 2018, this software was frozen every time Dan Kop tried to arrange columns of data in table order, either high or low. Not only Dan Kop but also at least 4 of his colleagues met a similar situation. After that, the problem was fixed after Excel updated the new version, but it caused Dan Kop's long-standing good relationship with Excel to be broken. Because if you use Sheets, the same thing will not happen because it is on the cloud so it will be fixed immediately when an error occurs. Therefore, Dan Kop decided to break up with Excel.

However, because Dan Kop only uses Excel for the simplest tasks, it feels better to use Sheets than Excel. When it comes to solving complex calculations and drawing diagrams, he uses the statistical programming language R.

As for ordinary users, who don't know programming languages ​​like R, Python or Julia, maybe Excel with statistics, graphics or financial analysis is still a bit better than Sheets.